Someone at the Window

Pjäsmanus

According to Collecting Christie and the article Christie's still unpublished works (2022):

"This play was likely written in the mid-1930s and has not been performed. Based on the short story The Dead Harlequin, it removed the main characters of Harley Quin and Mr. Satterthwaite. Christie frequently removed dominant characters for stage plays (i.e. Poirot was removed from Murder on the Nile). With a murder at a fance dress ball, the play is long – coming in at 175 pages – and involved with 16 characters. The play has a prologue with three acts. The first two acts are set at Canforth Castle in 1919 as a prologue / flashback. Act Three is set in 1934 in London. /.../ Working copies for this script are known to have been criculated amongst theatre producers and so they will occasionally appear for sale. They were distributed by L. E. Berman."