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A full-length novel by Charles Osborne adapted from Agatha Christies stage play, in which a diplomats wife finds a body that mustnt be discovered
Following 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 there has been no murder at all

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Reads like authentic, vintage Christie. I feel sure Agatha would be proud to have written it.
Mathew Prichard, Agatha Christies grandson, on BLACK COFFEE

Osborne has again enhanced the original.
Sunday Telegraph, on THE UNEXPECTED GUEST

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.