6/22/2023 0 Comments Black Coffee by Charles Osborne![]() ![]() When a stranger having car trouble at night on a lonely road enters a house through the French windows of its study, he finds an invalid who has been shot dead and a woman (his wife) standing nearby and holding a gun. Christie's play had its premiere in 1958, yet remains undated by the passing years. ![]() That's not all bad, as this novelization preserves the lightning-quick pace of the original. But Osborne has added little flesh to the bones of the drama, which, with its single-room setting, absolutely retains the feel of a play merely masquerading as a novel rather than transformed into one. For those who can't see the play in production or who find a script dull or difficult reading, Osborne's adaptation may fill a need. ![]() As he did with Black Coffee (1998), Osborne has taken one of Christie's original play scripts and turned it into a (slight) novel. ![]()
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