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Loading... The Unexpected Guest: Play (Acting Edition)by Agatha Christie
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Actually it is a novelization of the play and not that great at that. Very standard plodding Agatha Christie that would likely be better on stage or movie. Short. Man (unexpected guest) stumbles into Welsh house to find dead man with wife with gun admitting she is guilty. Man is smitten with wife so he concocts a story to save her, but it turns out she was protecting her slimy politician boyfriend. (ick!). A few other assorted types - the blackmailing nurse/butler, the mentally retarded brother, the efficient secretary, but on the whole- not a lot going on. ( ) Pretty decent play for a mystery, but I had the ending figured out really early on so that kept it from being really enjoyable. The master of the house is murdered. The obvious suspect is his wife and she's all too willing to take the blame...who is she protecting? I have a special fondness for this play. While I was directing it, the man who became my husband was playing the lead...it was during this production that we became very close. (Cue all jokes about sleeping with the director...) I was in this show and I don't remember a thing about it. Better go read it again. no reviews | add a review
In a country house a woman with a gun stands by the body of her husband. It looks like obvious murder, until the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge. No library descriptions found. |
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