The release date for the English version of 'The Unexpected Guest' by
Charles Osborne is Sep 2000. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A stranger finds a lady standing over her wheelchair-bound husband's dead corpse with a revolver in her hand after crashing his vehicle into a ditch in thick fog close to the coast of South Wales. She confesses to killing someone, and the surprise visitor offers to assist her in creating a lie.
Is it feasible, however, that Laura Warwick did not really commit the murder? Who is she protecting, if so? Is it the victim's dying matriarchal mother or his mentally handicapped little half-brother? Lover of Laura? Maybe the father of the little child whom Warwick caused to die in an accident? There are a lot of potential suspects in the home.
The 1958 play of the same name by Agatha Christie served as the model for Charles Osborne's book adaptation.