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. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.
Acting
Penelope Keith's fluttering brilliance—think Hyacinth Bucket solves murder.
Writing
Christie's sharpest domestic comedy, every line a potential red herring.
Production
Single-location tension that turns a Kent drawing-room into a pressure cooker.
Director
Basil Coleman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Agatha Christie wrote 'Spider's Web' specifically for Margaret Lockwood in 1954, creating her only play with a part written for a specific star.
Penelope Keith shot this between 'To the Manor Born' and 'The Good Life,' making 1982 peak posh-but-chaotic energy for British television.
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