Unfinished Portrait Author:Agatha Christie (Writing as Mary Westmacott) She was lovely and alone, a stranger on an exotic island. Men who saw her from afar were irresistibly attracted by her beauty. Those who came closer were chilled at the terror in her eyes. — What perilous past had led her here? What sinister spectre haunted her still? What fearful fate did she offer any man who fell in love with her? — Inexorably,... more » the truth in all its horror began to emerge....
Agatha Christie, writing under the name Mary Westmacott, displays a dazzling new facet of her genius in this unforgettable novel of breathless romance, intrigue and danger.
Bereft of the three people she has held most dear -- her mother, her husband and her daughter -- Celia is on the verge of suicide. Then one night on an exotic island she meets Larraby, a successful portrait painter, and through a long night of talk reveals how she is afraid to commit herself to a second chance of happiness with another person, yet is not brave enough to face life alone. Can Larraby help Celia come to terms with the past or will they part, her outcome still uncertain?« less