"Opens with a wonderfully arresting scene...Veteran readers of the author’s workwill watch in-fascination."--Kirkus Reviews.
With over two billion books in print worldwide, Agatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time, having penned more than one hundred works of fiction, drama, poetry and nonfiction. With THE UNEXPECTED GUEST, just as was so superbly done with her New York Times bestselling Black Coffee, author Charles Osborne adapts this brilliant Christie play into a most intriguing mystery novel.
"Like a martini...Christie’s smoothly polished mysteries I go down easy Will satisfy all devotees of Chfistie"s neat plotting...Ready forthe beach or fireside."--Booklist
Along a mist-shrouded country road in South Wales on a chilly November evening, engineer Michael Starkwedder"s car stands hopelessly stuck in a muddy ditch. Ambling up to the nearest house for help, Starkwedder gets no reply when he knocks on the French doors of the elegant, darkened home. With a push, the doors open, and inside he is witness to a startling scene: a man, slumped over dead in a wheelchair, and his lovely young wife standing nearby, with smoking gun in hand. Laura Warwick immediately confesses to the crime. But Starkwedder, a man intrigued by what lay beneath the surface, begins to uncover family ties and chilling motives as twisted as the backroads of rural Wales-and soon discovers that in this seemingly open-and-shut case,nothing is what it appears to be...
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
THE PLAYS OF AGATHA CHRISTIE
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
