Spider's web

1st ed.

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Author

Contributions

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. - Contributor

Publication

2000 - St. Martin's Minotaur, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

55,750 words, Guess

Page Count

223 pages

Identifiers

ISBN-100312266502
ISBN-100312979509
ISBN-139780312266509
ISBN-139780312979508
LibraryThing191677

and 3 more

Goodreads1371959', '910100
Library of Congress Control Number00040227
Open LibraryOL23244778M

Description

Clarissa Hailsham-Brown, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do? She has her chance to find out when she discovers a corpse in the drawing-room of her house in Kent... Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband returns home accompanied by an important foreign politician, Clarissa persuades her three houseguests to become accessories and accomplices. The search begins for the murderer and the motive - all the while trying to persuade a police inspector that there has been no murder at all ...