The Unexpected Guest: A Mystery

✍ Scribed by Christie, Agatha

• Book ID: 108643872
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 60 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A new full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie’s acclaimed play the data warehouse lifecycle toolkit torrent. Following the success of BLACK COFFEE comes the second of three Agatha Christie novelisations, bringing her superb storytelling to a new legion of fans the data warehouse lifecycle toolkit torrent. When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales, near the coast, 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 the data warehouse lifecycle toolkit torrent. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story the data warehouse lifecycle toolkit torrent. 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? The father of a little boy killed in the accident which put Warwick in the wheelchair? The house seems full of possible suspects. THE UNEXPECTED GUEST is considered to be one of the finest of Christie’s 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. *** A thriller as well as a puzzler set in a foggy estate in Wales, this mystery opens as a stranger walks into a house to find a man murdered and his wife standing over him with a gun. But the woman is dazed and her confession unconvincing. So the unexpected guest decides to help her and blame the murder on an intruder. Later, the police discover clues that point to a man who died two years previously and a pandora's box of loves and hates, suspicions and intrigues is opened to the night air.