The Unexpected Guest
A young man, broken down in the fog, witnesses a murder he is asked to conceal… A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie’s acclaimed play. When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman...
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A young man, broken down in the fog, witnesses a murder he is asked to conceal… A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie’s acclaimed play.
When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story.
But is it possible that Laura Warwick did not commit the murder after all? If so, who is she shielding? The victim’s retarded young half-brother or his dying matriarchal mother? Laura’s lover? Perhaps the father of the little boy killed in an accident for which Warwick was responsible? The house seems full of possible suspects…
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780006513681 (0006513689)
Publish date: 2000-07-03
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 204
Edition language: English
The Unexpected Guest is another play by Agatha Christie that was adapted as a novel Charles Osborne - so in short, it is not that great. Of course I am peeved that I ended up with this book because it was advertised as an Agatha Christie novel, and it is not, but I am also astounded Osborne got to...
Niby wszystko już wiemy, bo autorka podsuwa nam zabójcę już na samym początku książki, a jednak to tylko złudna wiedza, bo sprawy tak się komplikują, że w końcu nie wiemy nic. Mistrzostwo, a zakończenie podane dosłownie na ostatnich stronach książki jest tak zaskakujące, że aż otwiera się szeroko oc...
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