Ein junger Mann kommt nachts am Steuer eines Autos von der vereisten Straße ab, prallt gegen einen Baum und stirbt. Ein tragischer, aber nicht ungewöhnlicher Unfall, denkt auch Gerichtsmedizinerin Dr. Samantha Ryan, zumal ihr Freund und Kollege Trevor Stuart die Diagnose durch Autopsie bestätigt hat. Doch die Eltern des jungen Mannes glauben nicht an einen natürlichen Tod und bitten Dr. Samantha Ryan, den Leichnam einer zweiten Autopsie zu unterziehen. Sie stellt fest, dass er ermordet wurde, und muss schließlich auch die dunklen Seiten wohl vertrauter Bekannter kennen lernen ...

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Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

Charles Osborne was born in Brisbane in 1927. He is known internationally as an authority on opera, though has had a lifelong passion for Agatha Christie's works. His previous books include The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie.

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A full-length novel by Charles Osborne adapted from Agatha Christie's stage play, in which a diplomat's wife finds a body that mustn't be discovered...

Following BLACK COFFEE and THE UNEXPECTED GUEST comes the final Agatha Christie play novelisation, bringing her superb storytelling to a new legion of fans.

Clarissa, 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 muses.

Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent. Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband comes home with an important foreign politician, Clarissa persuades her three house guests to become accessories and accomplices. It seems that the murdered man was not unknown to certain members of the house party (but which ones?), and the search begins for the murderer and the motive, while at the same time trying to persuade a police inspector that there has been no murder at all...