The Unexpected Guest audiobook

Agatha Christie Book Reading ChallengeBOOK 17 :- APRIL 20204 STARS

Having read every full length novel by the queen of crime I came across this play that has been adapted into a novel. I started to read this book and very soon I knew I had picked a good book to read, I could easily picture this been played out on a stage and it had the usual twists and turns that any Agatha Christie reader would expect. As with most Christie novels the finger of suspicion moved from character to character as more facts were told.The novel starts with a stranger running his car into a ditch in dense fog near the South Wales coast, and making his way to an isolated house where he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story. There is a doubt that the woman, Laura Warwick did not actually commit the murder after-all but why why would she admit guilt. The house is full of suspects and in turn you will suspect all of them.It was good to read one of my all time favourite authors work with this 1958 adapted play.

Like Spider's Web, The Unexpected Guest is yet another play of Dame Agatha Christie’s that was turned into a novel by Charles Osborne. Both of the plays-turned-novels were originally published in 2000 and recently turned into audiobooks; while neither feature Christie’s usual characters of Miss Jane Marple, Hercule Poirot, or Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, both are equally fabulous.Due to a pea fog, Michael Starkwedder runs his car off the road and arrives at a house, only to find the wheelchair-bound Richard Warwick shot in the head and his wife, the beautiful Laura Warwick, holding the gun. She claims to have shot and killed her husband, but Starkwedder begins to doubt her story. Is she innocent and shielding someone, as he thinks, or has he been taken in by a pretty face? Plenty of twists in a rollercoaster of a novel that will keep you guessing to the very, very end.

** spoiler alert ** FANTASTICO. Muy bueno. Entra a formar parte de mis favoritos de A.Christie. Magistral, la puesta en escena.La historia parece tener poco misterio al principio, pero a medida de la madeja se va deshaciendo, van surgiendo nuevos sospechosos y cuando el caso parecía que tenia ya al asesino confeso y atrapado, zas, en la última página se descubre al verdadero asesino. MAGISTRAL DE NUEVO A.CHRISTIE.

The book is based on Agatha Christie play. Charles Osborne has done a wonderful job in bringing alive the play in a typical Christie fashion. The end as in almost all her novels is great and as a reader makes you wonder at the brilliant climax. A Bollywood flick- Dhund is based on this play. Though true to the story line most of he time, the ending in the film is weal compared to the book. One of the best plots by Christie. Awesome read.

'Men are really the sensitive sex. Women are tough. Men can't take murder in their stride. Women apparently can.'A pacy thriller!

wow wow wow this book is good at giving me blow job mouth because in the last 15 pages my mouth dropped so much so hard i literally thought the book was starting to end when another bomb dropped and it ALL came together and WOW okay very good easy read enjoyed the connection between the characters enjoyed the simplicity and the complexity All in all a goodread

Michael Starkwedder, whose run his car into a ditch on a foggy night, walks up to a house where he intends to get assistance but instead finds the body of the home's owner, a man in a wheelchair. He also finds a woman standing in a corner of the room, holding the weapon.The woman says that she did the killing, but the reader soon discovers that a whole lot of the tale is gray. Did Laura Warwick kill her husband — or is she covering for someone else? Because nearly everyone involved in this twisted mystery has cause and the means to kill Richard Warwick. Agatha Christie originally wrote this story as a play in 1954, and it reads very much like a play — everything happens in the sitting room of the house. But it came to become a novel with the assistance of Charles Osborne, a journalist, theatre and opera critic, poet and novelist, who also novelized Christie's other plays, Black Coffee and Spider's Web. It's been a very successful production. This is a thrilling story with clever twists and surprises galore. Everything about this story is well done. It's a very good read.

I commend Charles Osborne for his work on the play The Unexpected Guest, because I can imagine it must be a daunting task to turn the play which entirely occurs in one setting - a study room- into an Agatha Christie novel, who is a master of her work. The book, though understandably rushed, manages to capture all the mystery and surprise which, I’m guessing, the Dame wanted the attendees of the play to experience. Her craftiness was clearly shown in the clever setting and as always she managed to thwart my thought-process quite elaborately.

Agatha, a sus pies 🫡🫡¿Puedo empezar diciendo que lo mejor es el final? Este libro es BUENÍIIIIIIIISIMO."Una visita inesperada" es una propuesta muy atractiva. El inicio me gustó muchísimo, es muy diferente. Como muchas otras obras de misterio/crimen comienza con la aparición de un cadáver. Aunque en este caso la perspectiva que la autora le da es muy diferente: al mismo tiempo que aparece el cadáver, aparece su asesino... y hasta ahí puedo contar para no hacer spoilers, pero es un libro super entretenido y va teniendo giros muy chulos.Es solo el segundo libro que leo de Agatha Christie, pero va directo a mi estantería de favoritos.