Only five books returned this week. The best of the bunch was an old Agatha Christie play re-written as a novel by Charles Osborne called Spider's Web. This is a parlor mystery in which all the action takes place in one room. Despite the fact that it is presented as a novel, you can sense the play throughout.
At times the story is almost a farce (in a good way), but like all good Christie mysteries, it is suitably filled with red herrings and judicious clues. Heroine Clarissa Hailsham-Brown unflappably spins wild and wonderful diversions to explain the presence of the body in the drawing room. She alone is worth the trip to the library to grab this one.
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