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Book SynopsisA full-length novel by Charles Osborne adapted from Agatha Christie's stage play, in which a diplomat's wife finds a body that mustn't be discoveredFollowing BLACK COFFEE and THE UNEXPECTED GUEST comes the final Agatha Christie play novelisation, bringing her superb storytelling to a new legion of fans.Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses.Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent. Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband comes home with an important foreign politician, Clarissa persuades her three house guests to become accessories and accomplices. It seems that the murdered man was not unknown to certain members of the house party (but which ones?), and the search begins for the murderer and the motive, while at the same time trying to persuade a police inspector that the
Trade Review‘Reads like authentic, vintage Christie. I feel sure Agatha would be proud to have written it.’
Mathew Prichard, Agatha Christie’s grandson, on BLACK COFFEE
‘Osborne has again enhanced the original.’
Sunday Telegraph, on THE UNEXPECTED GUEST
