Spider's Web [DeliciousDeath]

written in 1954
Samuel French, London, 1957

Plot

(from HarperCollins "The Agatha Christie Collection" cover)

Presented by Peter Saunders at the Savoy Theatre, London, on 14th December 1954, with the following cast of characters:

(in the order of their appearance)

Directed by Wallace Douglas

Setting by Michael Weight

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES

The action of the play passes in the drawing-room of Copplestone Court, the Hailsham-Browns' home in Kent

ACT I - An evening in March

ACT II

SCENE 1 - A quarter of an hour later

SCENE 2 - Ten minutes later

ACT III - A few minutes later

Time - the present

[MV] The Spider's Web, 1960: [direct] Godfrey Grayson; [script] Albert G. Miller, Eldon Howard; [cast] Glynis Johns(Clarissa), Jack Hulbert(Sir Rowland), Basil Dignam(Hugo Birch), Ronald Howard(Jeremy Warrender), Cicley Courtneidge(Mildred Peake), Wendy Turner(Pippa)
[TV] The Spider's Web, 1983(BBC): [direct] Basil Coleman; [cast] Penelope Keith(Clarissa), Robert Flemyng(Sir Rowland), Thorley Walters(Hugo Birch), David Yelland(Jeremy Warrender), Elizabeth Spriggs(Mildred Peake), Holly Aird(Pippa)

adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne; HarperCollins, 2000*
Plot: 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 her drawing- room. Desperate to dispose of it before her husband comes home with an important foreign politician, Clarissa attempts to persuade her three house guests to become accessories and accomplices. As the search begins for the murderer in their midst , the house party is interrupted by the arrival of a police inspector, who needs convincing that there has been no murder at allc