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j_rowley 's review for:
The Unexpected Guest
by Charles Osborne, Agatha Christie
It’s a stormy night when Michael Starkwedder crashes his car and walks to a manor house for help. He finds a man dead in his wheelchair, and the man’s wife, Laura Warwick, holding the gun. Starkwedder vows to help her because he doesn’t believe she did it. She tells him her husband was horrible and abusive. She thinks up one possible enemy — the father of a child Warwick ran over and killed while speeding and drunk. The man vowed to kill him. Meanwhile in the house is Warwick’s mom and half-brother. He mentally tortured his half-brother who was handicapped.
So first you think it’s Laura protecting the boy. Then you come to find out she’s protecting the neighbor who she was having an affair with.
We find that the father had gone to Alaska and died there so it couldn’t be him. Brother likes the fact he will be the man of the house so he takes one of Warwick’s guns. Police try to get him to drop it, and he is killed in the struggle — taking the blame. Laura and lover didn’t make it through the test. Find out that Starkwedder was the father, and he killed Warwick. Professes his love for Laura but leaves. Ends with her calling after him.
Feel like Agatha Christie was a romantic so she wouldn’t have ended it this way.
So first you think it’s Laura protecting the boy. Then you come to find out she’s protecting the neighbor who she was having an affair with.
We find that the father had gone to Alaska and died there so it couldn’t be him. Brother likes the fact he will be the man of the house so he takes one of Warwick’s guns. Police try to get him to drop it, and he is killed in the struggle — taking the blame. Laura and lover didn’t make it through the test. Find out that Starkwedder was the father, and he killed Warwick. Professes his love for Laura but leaves. Ends with her calling after him.
Feel like Agatha Christie was a romantic so she wouldn’t have ended it this way.