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Nov 7, 2001 · ANTHONY SHAFFER, the playwright, novelist and screen-writer who has died aged 75, revolutionised the style and content of the British stage thriller with the subtly satirical and highly successful ...
Refresh and try again. * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more books, click here . Anthony Shaffer has 15 books on Goodreads with 5053 ratings. Anthony Shaffer’s most popular book is The Wicker Man.
Nov 12, 2001 · Anthony Shaffer, the British ... vain detective writer and his absent wife's young hairdresser lover, ''Sleuth'' was first rejected by London's leading producer, Binky Beaumont, ...
Anthony Shaffer. 4.12. 730 ratings53 reviews. Sleuth has all the ingredients of a top-class thriller, which it undoubtedly is - a plot whose twists and turns are breathtakingly audacious and fiendishly cunning; suspense and excitement galore; and a brilliant parody of the Agatha Christie country-house thriller, mercilessly satirizing the genre ...
Writer. The twin brother of equally celebrated playwright, Peter Shaffer, Anthony Shaffer's name, despite his other achievements, inevitably evokes his famously twisty, two-hander, Sleuth (1970), triumphant on Broadway as well as in London, and in 1972 turned into a successful film, from his own screenplay.
He will be remembered as one of the leading international mystery writers for both stage and screen, justifiably renowned for his sophisticated double-edged dialogue, convoluted plots and unexpected conclusions—a consummate storyteller. Anthony Joshua Shaffer (1926-2001) was born in Liverpool, the elder (by five minutes!) of twins in 1926.
