Spider's Web - Softcover

Christie, Agatha

3.92

11,736 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312979509 ISBN 13: 9780312979508

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 2001

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Clarissa, the young wife of a foreign office diplomat, delights in tweaking the sensibilities of her more serious friends by playing a game she calls "supposing"--imagining a difficult situation and finding out how people would respond. But Clarissa's lighthearted games becomes deadly serious when she discovers the body of an unknown person in her own drawing room. If that weren't bad enough, her husband is on the way home with an important foreign politician. Clarissa decides to dispose of the body and persuades her three houseguests to help. But before she can get the corpse off the premises, a policeman knocks at her front door. Now Clarissa must keep the body hidden, convince the skeptical police inspector that there has been no murder, and, in the meantime, find out who has been murdered, why, and what the body is doing in her house...

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Review:

"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"

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""

"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

From the Back Cover:

Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses.

Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in her drawing-room. Desperate to dispose of it before her husband come home with an important foreign politician, Clarissa persuades her three house guests to become accessories and accomplices. As the search begins for the murderer in their midst, the house party is interrupted by the arrival of a police inspector, who needs convincing that there has been no murder at all...

Following his acclaimed 'Black Coffee' and 'The Unexpected Guest' play novelisations, Charles Osborne brings another of Agatha Christie's elusive mysteries to a new legion of fans.

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