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The Unexpected Guest
by Charles Osborne, Agatha Christie
I didn't know what to expect from this novelisation of an Agatha Christie play. Would the magic be lost? Would the prose be painful? A very happy no on both counts!
This book opens up on a foggy November evening, a man has his car stuck in a ditch. He runs up to the nearest house and doscovers a woman holding a gun and her dead husband.
Why does he feel compelled to help? Who in the house can be trusted? Has anyone ever penned a more pathetic seeming police sargent and exasperated inspector pairing?
This was great. The twist shocked me...I figured it out with 8 pages to go and about 4 pages before we're told which is basically peak mystery enjoyment right there.
The novel is written well, and honestly I think Osborne did a great job of capturing Christie rather than pretending to be her. My only problem was that, really, this could have been novelised a bit more thoroughly...I can see exactly how this was a play and to be honest a print of the play would have achieved much the same outcome.
But, this was an Agatha Christie plot...naturally it didn't disappoint. Shes so perfect for cold winters nights =D
This book opens up on a foggy November evening, a man has his car stuck in a ditch. He runs up to the nearest house and doscovers a woman holding a gun and her dead husband.
Why does he feel compelled to help? Who in the house can be trusted? Has anyone ever penned a more pathetic seeming police sargent and exasperated inspector pairing?
This was great. The twist shocked me...I figured it out with 8 pages to go and about 4 pages before we're told which is basically peak mystery enjoyment right there.
The novel is written well, and honestly I think Osborne did a great job of capturing Christie rather than pretending to be her. My only problem was that, really, this could have been novelised a bit more thoroughly...I can see exactly how this was a play and to be honest a print of the play would have achieved much the same outcome.
But, this was an Agatha Christie plot...naturally it didn't disappoint. Shes so perfect for cold winters nights =D