Spider's Web

Adapted as a novel by CHARLES OSBORNE

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.

She has the chance to find out when she discovers a body – in her drawing-room. Desperate to dispose of it, she attempts to persuade her house guests to become accessories and accomplices. Now, as the search begins for the murderer in their midst, supposing a police inspector arrives…?

‘I found myself turning the pages with mounting impatience… Osborne has again enhanced the original.’ David Robson, Sunday Telegraph