Spider's Web: A Play

by Agatha Christie

Overview

Clarissa the second wife of Henry Hailsham Brown is adept at spinning tales of adventure for their bored diplomatic circle. When a murder takes place in her drawing room she finds live drama much harder to cope with especially as she suspects the murderer might be her young stepdaughter Pippa. Worse still the victim is the man who broke up Henry's first marriage! Clarissa's fast talking places her in some hair raising experiences as she comes to learn that the facts are much more terrifying

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780573702334
Publisher:	Concord Theatricals
Publication date:	01/22/2014
Pages:	142
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She wrote eighty crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and several other books. Her books have sold roughly four billion copies and have been translated into 45 languages. She is the creator of the two most enduring figures in crime literature—Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple—and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre. Christie was born in Torquay, Devon in 1890. She died in 1976 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1890

Date of Death:

January 12, 1976

Place of Birth:

Torquay, Devon, England

Education:

Home schooling

Website:

http://www.agathachristie.com

Editorial Reviews

Clarissa Hailsham-Brown loves to pretend. She's pretended that her husband was secretly married to another woman. She's pretended to be a great actress whose world is a stage. She's even pretended that she's had to choose between betraying her country and seeing her husband shot before her eyes. But when Clarissa stumbles upon a dead body in the drawing room, there's no pretending about the mess she'll be in if she can't hide the body before her husband comes home, and convince the police that there's been no murder….

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"Christie's exquisite timing and clever sleight-of-hand tricks are a delight...this is a welcome addition to the Christie cannon."—Publishers Weekly

"Great fun. The perfect way to distract you from the cares of the day."—Arizona Daily Star

"Agatha Christie is the champion deceiver of our time."—The New York Times

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