The Unexpected Guest

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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 Christies 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 victims young half-brother or his dying matriarchal mother Lauras lover Perhaps the father of the little boy killed in an accident for which Warwick was responsible The house seems full of possible suspects

THE UNEXPECTED GUEST is considered to be one of the finest of Christies plays. Hailed as another Mousetrap when it opened on 12 August 1958 in the West End, it ran for 604 performances over the succeeding 18 months and has been staged many times around the world over the last 40 years.

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For Black Coffee:

A lively and light-hearted read which will give pleasure to all those who have long wished that there was just one more Christie to devour
Antonia Fraser, Sunday Telegraph

A worthy addition to the Christie canon
The Spectator

Author Bio

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.