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The Unexpected Guest (Record no. 5768)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 99045072
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780312242626
024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 42432545
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PR6065.S15
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.914
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Agatha Christie
245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Unexpected Guest
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Minotaur Books
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 210 pages
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time with her works outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. She is regarded by generations of fans as the greatest mystery writer ever, and her novels are read and cherished the world over.Clarissa, the young wife of a Foreign Office Diplomat, delights in tweaking the sensibilities of her more serious friends and for playing a game she calls "supposing" - imagining a difficult situation and figuring out how people would respond. But Clarissa's lighthearted game becomes deadly serious when she discovers the dead body of an unknown person in her own drawing room. If that wasn't bad enough, her husband is on the way home with an important foreign politician and the attendant scandal of the dead body would irrevocably damage his career at the very least. Therefore, Clarissa decides to dispose of the body and persuades her three houseguests to help. But before she can get the body off the premises, a policeman arrives at her front door. The police received an anonymous tip about a murder in the house and have shown up to investigate. Now Clarissa must keep the body hidden, convince the skeptical police inspector that there has been no murder, and, in the meantime, find out who has been murdered, why, and what the body is doing in her house. Originally written by Agatha Christie as a play in 1954, now rendered as a novel by Charles Osborne, Spider's Web is a compelling tale of murder and deceit sure to entertain and amuse the legions of Christie's fans worldwide.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Mystery
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        Lake Chapala Society Lake Chapala Society 07/17/2024   HC CHRI 36230 07/17/2024 1 07/17/2024 Book

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