The Unexpected Guest

In an adaptation of a 1958 play, Michael Starkwedder crashes his car and, after finding a dead man and a woman with a smoking gun in the nearest house while searching for help, discovers that not everything is as it seems. Simultaneous.

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This adaptation from the stage play by Christie biographer Charles Osborne gives Agatha Christie fans a new arena in which to hear her masterful mysteries. A traveler's car breaks down in the Scottish countryside, and, while seeking assistance, he stumbles upon a murder in a nearby home. And as is typical with Agatha Christie yarns, all is not as it seems. Lively and well-suited to the humorous undertones in Christie's work is Alexandra Thomas. Her narrative pace adeptly twists with each turn of plot. This audiobook is so faithful to Christie's writing style that fans may not even notice it's an adaptation. R.A.P. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About the Author

Agatha Christie is the author of eighty crime novels and collections of stories, nineteen plays and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures of crime literature--Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple--as well as the author of Mousetrap, the longest running play in the history of modern theater. Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976. Charles Osborne, who adapted the play as a novel, is a world authority on theater and opera as well as the author of The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie. He lives in London.

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