The Unexpected Guest

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Summary: the unexpected guest-D.P
Review: The main charecter in the book is a man and he is nice,carefull, and caring.The plot in the story is a man was driving down the street and it was real foggy and he ran his car into a detch.It was night time and all he could see is a house and he went to ask for help and he heard a gun shot. He opended the door and he saw a man in a wheelchair. He started to talk to the man. Then he looked at the man closly and saw that the man had been shot in the head. Then he turned around to leave and a woman was behind him holding a gun. She told him to sit down and call the cops and tell them what happened. The man said he wont. He said he wanted to help her. I think people should read it because it was a really good book. It was my favrite book I have ever read.

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Summary: The Unexpected Guest
Review: The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie is a considerably good book. Overall, I enjoyed reading it. The tale is of a young women who kills her husband. Just as she is about to confess, an unexpected guest arrives and tries to get her out of her situation. The whole story is about how the two plan to fool the police into not suspecting the young woman. The story has a few twists and turns along the way that are not expected. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good mystery.
~Jenny

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Summary: Unexpected Guest
Review: The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie is a really great book. I was really surprised by the outcome. She is a truly wonderful author and I love the way she writes. You can picture the characters in this novel to be in a movie and the description are so great that you can actually see them in your mind.

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Summary: exciting
Review: This adaption of Christie's play has a corker beginning that pulls you in from the first word. The characters are all deliberate red herrings to throw you off the scent of the mystery, so the ending really delivers the goods. The obvious is made not quite so obvious until you realize, it was very obvious after all. Fun reading contains some of Christie's most clever plotting. Osborne has done a great job with the limitations of the original story. I thought this was more rewarding than Black Coffee and certainly had much more fascinating people in it.

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Summary: The Unexpected Guest
Review: This book is a good mystery overall. I could have hoped for a slightly different ending (but that's the romantic in me speaking). It's rather obvious that it was adapted from a play. The majority of the action occurs in one room and there isn't much depth of emotion described in any of the characters.
For Poirot and Marple fans, neither of these famous detectives are present. It is still a good mystery and a captivating read. However, I would recommend checking it out of the library or borrowing it from a friend before committing to a purchase.

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Summary: The Unexpected Guest
Review: This book is a good mystery overall. I could have hoped for a slightly different ending (but that's the romantic in me speaking). It's rather obvious that it was adapted from a play. The majority of the action occurs in one room and there isn't much depth of emotion described in any of the characters.
For Poirot and Marple fans, neither of these famous detectives are present. It is still a good mystery and a captivating read. However, I would recommend checking it out of the library or borrowing it from a friend before committing to a purchase.

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Summary: If you like murder mysteries this book is for you
Review: This book is a really good book, I recommend this book to anybody who at least likes reading little bit, especially if you like to read about brama and murder.Reading is not one of my strong points but this book was very easy to understand. I really liked the book because it kept me in suspense, and I never knew what to expect. Like in the begining of the book, I could not figure out why Michael Starkwedder was trying to help out Laura Warwick(the killer)so much.Although the book was like trying to put a puzzle together the whole time it was very interesting and I really liked it.

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Summary: If you like murder mysteries this book is for you
Review: This book is a really good book, I recommend this book to anybody who at least likes reading little bit, especially if you like to read about drama and murder. Reading is not one of my strong points but this book was very easy to understand. I really liked the book because it kept me in suspense, and I never knew what to expect. Like in the begining of the book, I could not figure out why Michael Starkwedder was trying to help out Laura Warwick(the killer)so much.Although the book was like trying to put a puzzle together the whole time, it was very interesting and I really liked it.

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Summary: 2nd in trilogy of plays
Review: This is the 2nd and middle book of the 3 Osborne adaptations of Agatha Christie plays into novel form. I think it's the middling of the three in quality as well. The 1st was "Black Coffee" and the 3rd was "Spider's Web." All 3 read more like plays than novels--so if you are expecting the normal Christie novel, you may very well be disappointed. However, if you have read the novels, this is a lovely addition to your list of Christie's and a rare opportunity to envision her plays. True, the plays could just as easily have been bound and published. But, Osborne has apparently done little, if anything, to detract from the plays themselves. So, IMHO, he has done a service both to Christie and to the mystery reading public by publishing these works. As for the content, this particular work is great fun! I loved the story, the twists and turns (and there are many of them), the cleverness, etc. It IS after all, a Christie! And quite a good one at that. Enjoy!

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Summary: One of my All-Time Favorites
Review: This one's a classic Christie. My favorite Christie books are non-Poiroit's and non-Miss Marples' (like this one).
It all starts when a man has his car stuck in a ditch in the middle of the night. He stumbles into a house looking for help and knocks on the window. No one answers so he comes in (he finds the door open.) He goes downstairs until he sees a man in a wheelchair. When the old man doesn't respond, the protagonist (I forgot his name) assumes he is asleep, until he sees blood and turns around to find a woman with a revolver in her hand. She does not lie, instead she just admits what she has done. The main character does not call the cops, but decides he wants to help the charming young woman. Together, they make false evidence pointing towards a man whose son was once killed by the victim. We are soon introduced to many other characters, and that's when the detective and sergeant are introduced. I kept guessing until the end, when one of the characters, the mentaly disabled one shoots the cop, and so I thought that he was the killer and that was it. But I read on and there was a mind-shattering twist, and the ending is simply the best one out of the many, many Agatha Christie books I have read so far. YOU WON"T BELIEVE IT!!!
I strongly recommend this book to anyone-children or adults.
You'll love it.