02305cam a2200361 i 4500 126998856 TxAuBib 20120127120000.0 000509s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00040227 9780312266509 0312266502 (OCoLC)44089455 TxAuBib rda Osborne, Charles, 1927- Spider's web [BOOK] / by Agatha Christie ; adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne. Spider's web 2 Agatha Christie Collection Adapted Play to novel. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000. 223 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Osborne completes his homage to Christie with this third and final adaptation of an original Christie play, following Black Coffee (1998) and The Unexpected Guest (1999). Though the play was written in 1954, the story suffers little from the passage of time, and aside from the static setting, reads well as a novel. Christie's exquisite timing and clever sleight-of-mind tricks are a delight, while Osborne has the good sense not to embroider the tale. A typical closed cast of characters occupies the temporary country home of Henry and Clarissa Hailsham-Brown: the seemingly scatterbrained Clarissa; her stepdaughter, Pippa; the odious Oliver Costello, who has married Pippa's mother; Sir Rowland Delahaye, Clarissa's godfather and a man of honor; an outspoken gardener; a butler; a cook; and Inspector Lord, the rather diffident policeman. When Clarissa discovers a body in the drawing room, she decides that it mustn't be found there. Her plans to dispose of the body are interrupted by the arrival of a rather diffident policeman, Inspector Lord, who has come to check out an anonymous tip that a murder has been committed. 20031015. Diplomats' spouses Fiction. Diplomats' spouses. fast Kent (England) Fiction. England fast Kent. Detective and mystery fiction. fast Christie, Agatha. Spider's web. TXIRI