Sleuth (Playscripts S.) - Softcover

Shaffer, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714507636 ISBN 13: 9780714507637

Verlag: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2004

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Reseña del editor

Sleuth has all the ingredients of a top-class thriller, which it undoubtedly is - a plot whose twists and turns are breathtakingly audacious and fiendishly cunning; suspense and excitement galore; and a brilliant parody of the Agatha Christie country-house thriller, mercilessly satirizing the genre at the same as using its technical devices to the full. It is a dramatic study of sexual conflict and jealousy between an older and a younger man; as well as a subtle psychological portrait of an inadequate and sexually-obsessed middle-aged man.

Sleuth was filmed by Joseph Mankiewicz, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine in the leading roles, and this edition is fully illustrated with stills from the film, for which Anthony Shaffer wrote the screenplay.

Anthony Shaffer has written several television and stage plays, including the West End success Murderer (also available from arion Boyars Publishers). He has also written many screenplays, including Play with a Gypsy, Hitchcock's Frenzy, The Wicker Man, and the Agatha Christie films Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun.

Reseña del editor

Mercilessly satirizing the Agatha Christie country-house thriller at every twist and turn, this is a dramatic study of sexual conflict and jealousy between a younger and an older man.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0714507636
• ISBN 13: 9780714507637
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 93