Verlag | HarperCollins UK |
Auflage | 2017 |
Seiten | 231 |
Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 1,3 cm |
Gewicht | 170 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0008196664 |
EAN | 9780008196660 |
Bestell-Nr | 00819666EA |
Ein junger Mann kommt nachts am Steuer eines Autos von der vereisten Straße ab, prallt gegen einen Baum und stirbt. Ein tragischer, aber nicht ungewöhnlicher Unfall, denkt auch Gerichtsmedizinerin Dr. Samantha Ryan, zumal ihr Freund und Kollege Trevor Stuart die Diagnose durch Autopsie bestätigt hat. Doch die Eltern des jungen Mannes glauben nicht an einen natürlichen Tod und bitten Dr. Samantha Ryan, den Leichnam einer zweiten Autopsie zu unterziehen. Sie stellt fest, dass er ermordet wurde, und muss schließlich auch die dunklen Seiten wohl vertrauter Bekannter kennen lernen ...
A 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 discovered...
A 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 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, wh ile at the same time trying to persuade a police inspector that there has been no murder at all...
Rezension:
'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