Background
Shaffer was born to a Jewish family in Liverpool, the son of Reka (née Fredman) and Jack Shaffer, who was an estate agent with his wife"s family.
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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 at the same 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; as well as a subtle psychological portrait of an inadequate and sexually-obsessed middle-aged man. Sleuth was filmed by Joseph Mankiewicz, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine in the leading roles, and this edition is fully illustrated with stills from the film, for which Anthony Shaffer wrote the screenplay. Anthony Shaffer has written several television and stage plays, including the West End success Murderer (also available from arion Boyars Publishers). He has also written many screenplays, including Play with a Gypsy, Hitchcock's Frenzy, The Wicker Man, and the Agatha Christie films Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun.
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Shaffer was born to a Jewish family in Liverpool, the son of Reka (née Fredman) and Jack Shaffer, who was an estate agent with his wife"s family.
He graduated with a law degree from Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was the identical twin brother of writer and dramatist Peter Shaffer, and they had another brother, Brian. Shaffer"s most notable work was the play, which he adapted for the film version which starred Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, and was Oscar nominated. His other major screenplays include the Hitchcock thriller and the British cult thriller with whose director, Robin Hardy, Shaffer had previously set up a television production company Hardy, Shaffer & Associates.
Shaffer was married three times and had two children with Soley, Claudia and Cressida.
This became an issue after his death, when one of his mistresses, Marie-Josette ("Jo") Capece Minutolo, made one of the claims on his estate in the British High Court (the other by Diane Cilento), arguing he had intended to divorce Cilento and marry her, and that he had given her an engagement ring. The British judge found that as Shaffer and his estate was not legally domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time of his death, Minutolo and Cilento had no claims on his estate or his beneficiaries and dependants.
Litigation against Claudia, who he named his next of kin, by the administrators of his estate continues, and in September 2014 another 5-day trial was listed for hearing in October 2015. Shaffer"s last will and testament under which Claudia was named his literary executor has yet to be disclosed.
( Sleuth has all the ingredients of a top-class thriller,...)
(First published in 1978, five years after the release of ...)