Deadline, which says Pugh will play the eponymous maid, a woman who works at a fancy hotel and “leaves every room perfect and pristine” while also “getting to know each guest’s dirty secrets.” One could argue that this makes her very bad at her job, but either way, her penchant for snooping comes in handy when a guest is murdered and she decides to try and solve the mystery.
Deadline describes it as a “
Clue-like, locked-room whodunnit.”
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Interestingly, and in what may be an inadvertent way to keep people from spoiling the solution to the mystery,
Deadline also says that the book version of
Florence Pugh to star in Agatha Christie-inspired murder mystery The Maid Sam Barsanti
Florence Pugh, who would’ve had a star-making appearance in
Black Widow by now if the pandemic hadn’t screwed things up (luckily she had star-making appearances in
Deadline, which says Pugh will play the eponymous maid, a woman who works at a fancy hotel and “leaves every room perfect and pristine” while also “getting to know each guest’s dirty secrets.” One could argue that this makes her very bad at her job, but either way, her penchant for snooping comes in handy when a guest is murdered and she decides to try and solve the mystery.
Black Widow) will star in Universal’s film adaptation of the forthcoming Nita Prose novel
The Maid. Prose is better known to Canadian publishing as Simon & Schuster Canada’s vice-president and editorial director Nita Pronovost.
The novel, set for publication in 2022, is about a hotel maid who discovers a dead patron and must turn detective to prove her own innocence. It has been acquired in multiple languages and international territories, including by Penguin Canada publisher Nicole Winstanley.
Pronovost will also executive produce the film. She is represented by Madeleine Milburn at the MM Agency.
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What follows is described as a search for the truth that mirrors the popular board game Clue, as Molly tries to determine who she can trust.
Invisible: The Maid follows Molly (Pugh), a maid at the ritzy Regency Grand Hotel, who is used to being invisible, cleaning up after the rich and famous and the secrets they leave behind
HarperCollins will publish The Maid as one of their lead hardcover titles in the Spring of 2022, following the intense bidding war in June.
Nita Prose is the pen name of Nita Pronovost, the vice president and editorial director at Simon & Schuster in Canada.
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