Spider's web [adaptation]

About This Book

Clarissa Hailsham-Brown, 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 has her chance to find out when she discovers a corpse in the drawing-room of her house in Kent... Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband returns home accompanied by an important foreign politician, Clarissa persuades her three houseguests to become accessories and accomplices. The search begins for the murderer and the motive - all the while trying to persuade a police inspector that there has been no murder at all ...