St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries: The Unexpected Guest : Travels in Afghanistan (Paperback)

from Cassandra2020

Not a particularly challenging read - finshed in a day.Obviously written as a stage play and has been 'novelised' by another author. As I read it, I could see the staging and imagine the set: drawing room with French Windows, garden just seen in the distance, characters wandering in and out of th...

from Dorritt

In the middle of a foggy country night, a stranger crashes his car into a ditch and stumbles into the drawing room of a nearby house seeking help - only to discover a murdered man in one corner of the dark room, his professed murderer in the other. This scene launches The Unexpected Guest, a nove...

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This is a 1999 novelisation of an original Agatha Christie play first performed in 1958. It enjoyed considerable success, notching up 600 performances over the next 18 months, clearly dwarfed even then by the success of The Mousetrap, which had already been running 6 years, but a good record in i...

from BookAngel_a

I had just finished reading Black Coffee which is a similar adaptation by this author, and this one was SO much better! It had a great plot with attention getting plot twists. I did manage to guess one or two of the plot twists, but it's only because I'm getting familiar with Christie's style. I ...

from victorianrose869

December 14,1999 The Unexpected Guest Agatha Christie (Charles Osborne) Apparently, Osborne - who may be a relative of Christie's; I'm not sure - has been commissioned to put some of Christie's most famous plays into novel form, and this is one of those, just recently released. Although Osborne t...