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Miss Perry is an unpublished and unperformed stage play, written by Agatha Christie. The play was written in the 30's or 50's of the last century.
Dutch Agatha Christie collector Ralf M.M. Stultiëns is the owner of the hand-typed manuscript of Miss Perry. The manuscript covers more than eighty pages and has various handwritten corrections by Christie herself. The script comes from the inventory of Hughes Massie & Co Ltd, Agatha Christie’s former literary agency, based in London.
References[edit]
The Irish author John Curran, archivist of The Agatha Christie Archive Trust, found a brief plot description of the play in one of Christie's notebooks. Page 50 [about notebook 53] of his Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years in the Making of Mystery [2009, ISBN 978-0-00-731056-2] reads: '… An outline for an unpublished and unperformed play, Miss Perry.'
Characters[edit]
The characters (in order of appearance):
- Martin Wylie
- Amy Buttermere
- Mrs. Parker (Poppy)
- William Crofts
- Councillor Waldron
- Fred Baker
- Miss Perry (Tania)
- Mr. Wylie (Ernest, Henry)
- Mrs. Wylie (Maria)
- P.C. Barnstable
- Superintendent Hodges
- Major Redhill (Tom)
Setting[edit]
- Act I - Scene 1 - Residents' Lounge in the "Queen of Diamonds"
- Act I - Scene 2 - The same, three days later
- Act II The same, some hours later