Witness for the Prosecution: And Selected Plays - Softcover

Christie, Agatha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000649045X ISBN 13: 9780006490456

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2002

Synopsis

Newly-jacketed edition designed to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Christie’s faultlessly plotted Witness for The Prosecution and other outstanding plays. The perfect complement to the latest edition of The Mousetrap and Selected Plays (50th Aniversary Edition).

Headlining this book is Witness for the Prosecution – Christie’s highly successful stage play which won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best foreign play. A stunning courtroom drama, it tells the story of a scheming wife testifying against her husband in a shocking murder trial.
The wild beauty of a seaside house perched high on The Devonshire River Tern provides a stunning back-drop in Towards Zero – as a psychopathic murderer homes in on the unsuspecting victims.
Passion, murder and love are the deadly ingredients in Verdict, making it one of Christie’s more unusual thrillers and prompting her to label it ‘the best play I have written with the exception of Witness for The Prosecution’.
Go Back for Murder tells the story of the young and feisty Carla who, orphaned at the tender age of five, discovers her mother was imprisioned for murdering her father and determines to prove her innocence.

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Review:

1920s London. A murder, brutal and bloodthirsty, has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and enormously rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a young chancer to whom the heiress left her vast fortune and who ruthlessly took her life. At least, this is the story that Emily’s dedicated housekeeper Janet Mackenzie stands by in court. Leonard however, is adamant that his partner, the enigmatic chorus girl Romaine, can prove his innocence.

From the Back Cover:

Headlining this book is Witness for the Prosecution – Christie’s highly successful stage play which won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best foreign play. A stunning courtroom drama, it tells the story of a scheming wife testifying against her husband in a shocking murder trial.
The wild beauty of a seaside house perched high on The Devonshire River Tern provides a stunning back-drop in Towards Zero – as a psychopathic murderer homes in on the unsuspecting victims.
Passion, murder and love are the deadly ingredients in Verdict, making it one of Christie’s more unusual thrillers and prompting her to label it ‘the best play I have written with the exception of Witness for The Prosecution’.
Go Back for Murder tells the story of the young and feisty Carla who, orphaned at the tender age of five, discovers her mother was imprisioned for murdering her father and determines to prove her innocence.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 000649045X
• ISBN 13: 9780006490456
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368