[download pdf] Sleuth: A Play by Anthony Shaffer, A. Shaffer
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Sleuth: A Play by Anthony Shaffer, A. Shaffer
- Sleuth: A Play
- Anthony Shaffer, A. Shaffer
- Page: 93
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9780714507637
- Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
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Overview
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 ...