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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…

An increase in deadly kidnappings puts the residents of Phoenix, Arizona, in a state of panic. Dangerous and brutal, the Sinaloa drug cartel has set up shop in the region.But the abductions are only the beginning. Determined to take over the drug pipeline between Nogales and Phoenix, a merciless Mexican drug lord will stop at nothing to gain control–no matter how many innocent people die along the way.With the city under siege and local law enforcement rendered powerless, Mack Bolan must find a way to stop the cartel's operation. But it's going to take more than brawn and firepower to win this battle. The Executioner must conduct a spectacular blitz to destroy the crime ring and restore order in Sun City.