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Agatha Christie is referred to as the Queen of Crime for her numerous, classical detective novels. The iconic Hercule Poirot and the popular Miss Marple, are among the most famous characters in detective fiction.
Besides her novels and short stories, she also wrote plays, most of them based on her novels. The Mousetrap, though, was originally written as a play. Over the past several decades, this play has retained its title as the longest running play in the modern era.
The Mousetrap And Selected Plays contains this play, and three other plays based on her bestselling novels. The other plays are And Then There Were None, The Hollow, and Appointment With Death. She adapted the novels into plays with slight modifications.
In The Hollow, a gathering of family and friends at a country house serves as a catalyst for many old resentments and feuds to rise to the surface. The complicated relationships between many of the guests raises hidden passions, resulting in murder.
In The Appointment With Death, a family is affected by a murder, in the stifling heat of the Middle East. Christie made many alterations in the story when she adapted it into a play.
And Then There Were None, originally published as Ten Little Niggers, is probably her best known novel, even though it features none of her famous detectives. It is a chilling setup in which ten people are invited to an isolated island by someone with a hidden agenda.
The Mousetrap, the only one in this collection to be written originally as a play, is still a highly popular attraction in the theatre. In the story, a young couple have just opened a guesthouse. Their first guests are trapped inside the hotel, by snow and to add to their troubles, a killer is on the loose.
The Mousetrap And Selected Plays presents this collection of four plays by Agatha Christie, with all her usual plot features, like red herrings and plot twists and the final denouement as the criminal is revealed.ISBN - 9780007282562
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Pages : 366
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