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Directors Notes

The author, Anthony Shaffer, graduated from Cambridge in 1950, where he edited the university magazine Granta. After a spell as a barrister, he decided to enter journalism and started writing commercials and documentaries. He also wrote several television plays which were screened, including “Pig in the Middle” and “The Savage Parade”

“Sleuth” has all the ingredients of a top-class thriller, which it undoubtedly is-a plot whose twists and surprises are breathtakingly audacious and fiendishly cunning; suspense and excitement galore: and a staggering denouement. Yet it is far more than just that: it is also a brilliant parody of the Agatha Christie country-house thriller, mercilessly satirising the genre at the same time as using its technical devices to the full: it is a dramatic study of sexual conflict and jealousy between an older and a younger man: and finally, it is a subtle psychological study of an inadequate and sexually-obsessed middle-aged man.