Agatha Christie

Drama, Thriller

8m, 5f

2 ints.

Only Agatha Christie could have conceived such a suspenseful thriller and then capped it with an uncanny triple flip ending. A young married man spends many evenings with a rich old woman. When this woman is found murdered, the naive young man becomes the chief suspect. The testimony of his wife is expected to result in an acquittal, but she damages her husband's case and all but hangs him before a vindictive mystery woman appears with letters against the wife. After the man is freed, it is revealed that mystery woman is actually his wife after all. She discredited and perjured herself, because she felt that direct testimony on her husband's behalf would not have been sufficient to free him. When the young man still turns his back on his wife and goes off with yet another woman, we realize that he was the murderer after all. He does not get away with it, for there is one turn of plot remaining.

"A walloping success."-Herald Tribune

"Packs plenty of surprise in its cargo of suspense."-Daily Mirror

Winner of the New York Critics Circle Award

Acting edition, $9.95

Title is also available in the collection, The Mousetrap and Other Plays.

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Other Agatha Christie titles available from Samuel French include:
Afternoon At The Seaside
And Then There Were None
Appointment With Death
Black Coffee
Go Back For Murder
The Hollow
The Mousetrap
Murder On The Nile
The Patient
The Rats
Spider’s Web
The Unexpected Guest
Verdict