The Witness for the Prosecution and others stories - Now a major BBC drama

Agatha Christie

Harper Collins UK

2016

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780008201258

Agatha Christie’s classic short story collection, published to tie-in with a new BBC TV adaptation of the book’s most enduring and shocking thriller, The Witness for the Prosecution.

1920s London. A murder, brutal and bloodthirsty, has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and enormously rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a young chancer to whom the heiress left her vast fortune and who ruthlessly took her life. At least, this is the story that Emily’s dedicated housekeeper Janet Mackenzie stands by in court. Leonard however, is adamant that his partner, the enigmatic chorus girl Romaine, can prove his innocence.

“With the long terrible shadow of the Great War falling across the rackety, feral 1920s, The Witness for the Prosecution is a compelling story of deceit, desire, murder, money and morality, innocence and guilt, heartbreak and most painful and dangerous of all, love. At the centre of this dark and tangled net is the astonishing character of Romaine, a noir heroine for all our times.” Sarah Phelps —

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3.5 (Bom)

Testemunha de Acusação

E assim completo a meta de leitura do ano. Minha experiência com o livro foi atrapalhada pelo fato de muitos dos contos já estarem presentes em outro livro da autora que li. Mas os que desconhecia, foram bons. Sigo sem ser a maior fã de contos, mas minha relação com eles está melhorando.