Christie Bistie

In Philomel Cottage, by Agatha Christie, a young unmarried woman inherits some money from her cousin and soon falls in love and marries a man she has only recently met. Another man, who has been in love with her for years, is very angry and warns her that she knows nothing about her new husband. At first she is very happy with her new husband, and she agrees to finance the purchase of a house for them both to live in. But before long she has a strange dream in which she imagines her husband is dead and that she is glad that he is dead. Not long after she has had the strange dream, she is driven by a feeling of unease and jealousy to look through her husband’s papers and she finds out that he has changed his identity and that he is in fact suspected of having married and then killed several women in the United States. It dawns on her that her life is in grave danger. She tries to escape,but her husband comes home sooner that she expected. She manages to call her old friend to help her. But while she is waiting for her friend to arrive she has to think fast in order to keep her husband from killing her.