"The Unexpected Guest" - это роман, адаптированный Чарльзом Осборном из знаменитой пьесы Агаты Кристи. Главный герой - молодой человек, который ломается в тумане на юге Уэльса и становится свидетелем убийства, которое ему просит скрыть женщина, стоящая над телом своего мужа на инвалидной коляске с пистолетом в руке. Она признается в убийстве, и неожиданный гость предлагает ей помочь придумать алиби. Но возможно ли, что Лаура Уорвик вообще не совершала убийства? Если это так, то кого она прикрывает? Молодого сводного брата жертвы или умирающую мать-матриарха? Ее любовника? Может быть, отца маленького мальчика, погибшего в аварии, за которую отвечал Уорвик? В доме кажется полным потенциальных подозреваемых... "The Unexpected Guest" считается одной из лучших пьес Кристи. Она была восторженно принята критиками, названа "еще одним Мышеловкой" и впервые поставлена в Западном Энде 12 августа 1958 года. Пьеса была на сцене 604 представления в течение последующих 18 месяцев и была поставлена многократно во всем мире за последние 40 лет.
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A young man sees a murder and is asked not to tell anybody about it. This is a full-length narrative which was adapted from Agatha Christie's play by Charles Osbourne.
One night in South Wales, a stranger leaves his car in a ditch and messes up because of dense fog. Then he arrives at a remote house. There, he sees a woman holding a gun whose target seemed to have been her wheelchair-using husband. Soon after, she confesses to having murdered him.
The guest decides to offer his services to the woman and gives her an idea what story they should concoct to cover the crime. Still, is it true that the neighbor did murder recently? Who should the guest possibly hide or denounce? The young son's father who had died in an car accident or the mother who was a complete hypochondriac and never missed an opportunity to shave her child's hair because of dandruff? His love interest or the grandmother who lived next door and fed the household with a wide range of dishes? Life was rather bizarre and full of intrigue in the house.
«The Unexpected Guest», as their critics call it, is one of Christie's finest plays, hailed as one more «Mousetrap» as it ran for six hundred performances in the Broadway for about two years in 1978 and was produced all over the globe during decades afterwards.
Название: «The Unexpected Guest». Автор: Агата Кристи.
Электронная Книга «The Unexpected Guest» написана автором Агата Кристи в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780007423033
Описание книги от Агата Кристи
A young man, broken down in the fog, witnesses a murder he is asked to conceal… A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie’s acclaimed play.When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, 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.But is it possible that Laura Warwick did not commit the murder after all? If so, who is she shielding? The victim’s young half-brother or his dying matriarchal mother? Laura’s lover? Perhaps the father of the little boy killed in an accident for which Warwick was responsible? The house seems full of possible suspects…THE UNEXPECTED GUEST is considered to be one of the finest of Christie’s plays. Hailed as ‘another Mousetrap’ when it opened on 12 August 1958 in the West End, it ran for 604 performances over the succeeding 18 months and has been staged many times around the world over the last 40 years.
