Spider's web
(Book - Regular Print)

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Published
New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
Cottonwood Public Library - FIC - Fiction Books
CHRISTIE
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Published
New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Osborne, C., & Christie, A. (2000). Spider's web (First edition.). St. Martin's Minotaur.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Osborne, Charles, 1927-2017 and Agatha Christie. 2000. Spider's Web. St. Martin's Minotaur.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Osborne, Charles, 1927-2017 and Agatha Christie. Spider's Web St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Osborne, Charles, and Agatha Christie. Spider's Web First edition., St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000.

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