Listen and read

Step into an infinite world of stories

  • Read and listen as much as you want
  • Over 1 million titles
  • Exclusive titles + Storytel Originals
  • 7 days free trial, then €9.99/month
  • Easy to cancel anytime
Subscribe Now
Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Deathtrap: ‘A Thriller in Two Acts’

Language
English
Format
Category

Lyric & Poetry

Ira Levin’s Broadway triumph Deathtrap melds gasp-out-loud thrills with laugh-out-loud laughs in a murderously entertaining “who’ll-do-it” of a play, within a play, within a …

Once-successful Sidney Bruhl has only a string of recent flops to his credit when he’s sent an instant hit of a thriller written by a former student. Is Sidney desperate enough to kill in order to claim the work as his own? Envy, ambition, betrayal, and hidden agendas intertwine in this “brimming tumbler of arsenic and Schweppes” (Time), whose ingenious plotting and dazzling twists have kept audiences on the edge of their seats for half a century.

The longest-running thriller in Broadway history, Deathtrap’s hybrid comedy-thriller format was a new animal when introduced by Levin in 1978. After garnering Edgar and Tony awards and setting the world record for the sale of screen rights to a play, Deathtrap was filmed in 1982 starring Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve and served as partial inspiration for 2019’s box office success Knives Out.

This edition features a new introduction by the author’s son, Nicholas Levin.

© 2025 Blackstone Publishing (Ebook): 9798212642729

Release date

Ebook: January 7, 2025

Others also enjoyed ...

  1. Mr. Mercedes: A Novel Stephen King
  2. The Stepford Wives Ira Levin
  3. The Boys from Brazil Ira Levin
  4. A Kiss Before Dying Ira Levin
  5. Billy Summers Stephen King
  6. Double Indemnity James Cain
  7. The Marlow Murder Club Robert Thorogood
  8. The Big Four Agatha Christie
  9. Double Sin and Other Stories Agatha Christie
  10. The Maid Nita Prose
  11. A Talent for Murder: A Novel Peter Swanson
  12. All the President's Men Bob Woodward
  13. The Christmas Guest: A Novella Peter Swanson
  14. The Witness for the Prosecution: An Agatha Christie Short Story Agatha Christie
  15. The Fifth to Die J.D. Barker
  16. His and Hers Alice Feeney
  17. The Marriage Act: The unmissable speculative thriller from the author of The One John Marrs
  18. Anatomy of a Scandal: Now a major Netflix series Sarah Vaughan
  19. The Mermaids Singing: Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Series, Book 1 Val McDermid
  20. MIDSUMMER MYSTERIES: Secrets and Suspense from the Queen of Crime Agatha Christie
  21. Cold Granite Stuart MacBride
  22. Notes on an Execution Danya Kukafka
  23. My Best Friend’s Exorcism: A Novel Grady Hendrix
  24. The Kind Worth Killing: A Novel Peter Swanson
  25. Horrorstör: A Novel Grady Hendrix
  26. Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Deanne Stillman
  27. Kill the Father: A Novel Sandrone Dazieri
  28. Psycho: A Novel Robert Bloch
  29. The Exorcist William Peter Blatty
  30. The Cuckoo's Calling: Cormoran Strike Book 1 Robert Galbraith
  31. Marple: Twelve New Stories Val McDermid
  32. The Grell Mystery Frank Froest
  33. A Flicker in the Dark Stacy Willingham
  34. A Suspension of Mercy Patricia Highsmith
  35. Local Woman Missing Mary Kubica
  36. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 John Joseph Adams
  37. The Guest List Lucy Foley
  38. Whatever It Takes Paul Cleave
  39. Behind Her Eyes Huw Parmenter
  40. Recursion Blake Crouch
  41. Keep Her Safe: A Novel Sophie Hannah
  42. Playdate: a gripping psychological thriller about a missing girl Alex Dahl
  43. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession Rachel Monroe
  44. I Am Legend Richard Matheson
  45. Strangers on a Train Patricia Highsmith

This is why you’ll love Storytel

  • Listen and read without limits

  • 800 000+ stories in 40 languages

  • Kids Mode (child-safe environment)

  • Cancel anytime

Unlimited stories, anytime
Time limited offer

Unlimited

Listen and read as much as you want

9.99 € /month
  • 1 account

  • Unlimited Access

  • Offline Mode

  • Kids Mode

  • Cancel anytime

Try now