Charles Osborne Ordre des livres

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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...

In the tradition of the bestselling "Black Coffee", author Charles Osborne adapts this Christie play into an intriguing novel set in South Wales. A stranded motorist stumbles upon a man slumped over dead in a wheelchair. His wife stands nearby with a smoking gun in her hand. Family secrets and chilling motives lie beneath the surface. Martin's Press.

En cette belle matinée de 1934, Hercule Poirot, retiré des Mires, savoure son petit-déjeuner dans son appartement de Mayfair... Mais lorsque sir Claude Amory appelle au secours le détective, le chocolat crémeux et la brioche dorée ne sont plus qu'un lointain souvenir. Les recherches de ce célèbre savant atomiste suscitent bien des convoitises, y compris dans sa propre maisonnée... Première pièce de théâtre d'Agatha Christie, Black Coffee contient déjà tous les ingrédients incontournables de ses œuvres : manoir dans la campagne anglaise, savant en danger, huis-clos oppressant et surtout, détective aux moustaches inoubliables et aux petites cellules grises mythiques... Charles Osborne, biographe et fin connaisseur de la reine du crime, a su transposer Black Coffee de la scène au roman avec élégance et sans rien perdre de ses qualités essentielles : mystère, dynamisme et bien sûr, humour !

Richard Strauss, born in 1864, was one of the 20th century's greatest and most prolific opera composers. His third opera, Salome, introduced the single-act structure, and the sensuality of the mujsic caused a furore. This was followed by the equally shocking Elektra, written in collaboration with Hugo von Hofmannsthal, but they completely changed direction for their next joint venture, Der Rosenkavalier, in which the Viennese waltz found its apotheosis. Once considered a revolutionary, Richard Strauss is today seen as the last of the German romantic composers, and most of his operas are still performed regularly throughout the world.

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