The Mousetrap and Other Plays (Miss Marple)
by Agatha Christie
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Author: Agatha ChristieEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-09-01
ISBN: 0451201140
Number of pages: 752
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: "The Mousetrap"--May It Run Forever
Summary: 5 Stars
Fifty-eight years ago Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opened and became a tourist attraction and a London institution. Forty years ago I saw the play, and on November 4, 2010, I saw it again in London and loved it. It reads very well, and the stage version is a perfect rendition of the script.
A young couple are expecting their very first guests in their newly opened B and B in the family's old manor house in the country. Outside there's a fierce blizzard raging which you can see through the windows. It looks as if the house will be isolated for quite some time. One at a time the characters arrive including the husband who has been out in the countryside running errands.
The wife on the wireless hears that there has been a grisly murder of a woman in London. The only description is that the perpetrator was seen wearing an overcoat, scarf and fedora. There's a bit of humor as we see each new character come in with the same accessories. There's a strange, quirky young man named Christopher Wren, a hypercritical older woman named Mrs. Boyle, a former magistrate, a retired army man, Major Metcalf, and the enigmatic young Miss Casewell. At the last minute a rather dodgy gentleman named Mr.Paravicini shows up unannounced.
A policeman, Detective Sergeant Trotter, arrives on skis to warn everybody that there are victims and a murderer among them. The nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice" becomes a key to the plot. At the end of Act One, one of characters gets murdered.
This is a fun play that holds up amazingly well. Christie wrote a dozen plays, and she was very adept at creating suspense, and delineating characters. She had a good theatrical sense.
The set is delightful with doors going off in all directions and even a glass door leading out into the snowy landscape. The play will keep you guessing until all of the strands from the past emerge to haunt certain people. Read it and see it. A great show that may run forever.
Summary of The Mousetrap and Other Plays (Miss Marple)
From "The Mousetrap" (the longest-running play in history) to "Ten Little Indians" and "Witness for Prosecution" (both made into classic film thrillers), here are eight brilliantly staged acts of murder featuring twice as many suspects and final-curtain twists.British & Irish Books
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