Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer
Sleuth has all the ingredients of a top-class thriller, which it undoubtedly is - a plot whose twists and turns are breathtakingly audacious and fiendishly cunning; suspense and excitement galore; and a brilliant parody of the Agatha Christie country-house thriller, mercilessly satirizing the genre at the same as using its technical devices to the full. It is a dramatic study of sexual conflict and jealousy between an older and a younger man; as well as a subtle psychological portrait of an inadequate and sexually-obsessed middle-aged man.
Sleuth was filmed by Joseph Mankiewicz, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine in the leading roles, and this edition is fully illustrated with stills from the film, for which Anthony Shaffer wrote the screenplay.
Anthony Shaffer has written several television and stage plays, including the West End success Murderer (also available from arion Boyars Publishers). He has also written many screenplays, including Play with a Gypsy, Hitchcock's Frenzy, The Wicker Man, and the Agatha Christie films Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun.
Sleuth was filmed by Joseph Mankiewicz, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine in the leading roles, and this edition is fully illustrated with stills from the film, for which Anthony Shaffer wrote the screenplay.
Anthony Shaffer has written several television and stage plays, including the West End success Murderer (also available from arion Boyars Publishers). He has also written many screenplays, including Play with a Gypsy, Hitchcock's Frenzy, The Wicker Man, and the Agatha Christie films Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun.
Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Operations on the Frontlines of Afghanistan--and the Road to Victory is written by Lt.Col. Anthony Shaffer. He is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army and a Bronze Star Medal recipient. Army Reserve of the United States of America. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in the intelligence community and is a CIA-trained senior intelligence operations officer. In Washington, D.C., he is a Senior Fellow and Special Lecturer at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780714507637 |
| ISBN 10 | 0714507636 |
| Title | Sleuth |
| Author | Anthony Shaffer |
| Series | Playscripts S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2004-03-02 |
| Number of pages | 93 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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