A black coffee with Poirot

By Ken Longworth
Updated August 18 2015 - 11:03am, first published 10:58am
WARMING UP: The cast of Black Coffee rehearses at St Stephens Anglican Church.
WARMING UP: The cast of Black Coffee rehearses at St Stephens Anglican Church.

AGATHA Christie, the queen of crime, branched into writing plays because she was unhappy with how an established playwright portrayed her dapper Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in adapting The Murder of Roger Ackroyd for the stage.

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