Poirot play novelized with blessings
By Regina Holbert
mondaybookclub@wvgazette.com
For March, the Book Club will read Agatha Christie’s “Black Coffee.”
Christie originally wrote “Black Coffee” as a play starring her detective Hercule Poirot. Biographer Charles Osbourne turned the play, set in 1934, into a novel with the blessing of the Christie estate.
The book is a classic “locked room” mystery — as in, “someone in this room is the murderer.”
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After receiving a summons at the breakfast table from a prominent scientist regarding a new atomic formula, Poirot sets out to visit the doctor only to discover that the doctor has been murdered. Poirot sorts through a cast of likely suspects that include the doctor’s deeply-in-debt son, a secretary and, of course, a spinster.
The group will meet to discuss Christie’s novel at 6 p.m. on March 26 at Taylor Books, 221 Capitol St.
To contact Regina Holbert, use e-mail or call 348-7936.
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