Initially unpublished in the US, it was later issued as a paperback by Dell Publishing in September 1963.

Initially a play written by Christie in the late 1930s, the plot tells of a daughter's opposition to her mother's plan to remarry.

He suggested amendments to update some of the references, which were now twenty years old, and tried the play out at the Theatre Royal, Bath where it opened on 9 July 1956[1] and ran for one week and eight performances.

Saunders however felt it would not survive in the West End and Christie didn't pursue the matter further.

[3] Following Hicks' death in 2004, a new production of the play, starring Jenny Seagrove and Honeysuckle Weeks and produced by Bill Kenwright, was to open in London's West End on 14 December 2009.