The Mousetrap

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Major Metcalf – Major Metcalf is a hotel guest at Monkswell Manor. He’s retired from the army, but continues to behave in a military fashion wherever he goes. Could this be the reason why he’s so suspicious? The Love Detectives. Sir James Melrose has been murdered in his own library. Colonel Melrose and Mr. Satterthwaite rush to the scene of the crime, accidentally bumping into Harley Quin on the way. Their accident turns providential when Quin makes the deduction which captures the criminal… Todo ocurre en el salón de la mansión Monkswell, convertida en hotel, que se encuentra a las afueras de Londres y cuyos huéspedes quedan incomunicados por una fuerte ventisca.

True story behind Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap' to be published". The Independent . Retrieved 17 December 2022.

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She failed to answer a letter the younger boy sent her at the time, begging to be rescued from the farm. Mollie protests that she had been seriously ill when the letter arrived and was unable to even read it until well after the boy was dead. After the role-players scatter, Trotter sits for a moment before calling for Mollie. He tells her that she has risked extreme danger by not identifying herself to him; he now knows that she was once the schoolteacher of the doomed Corrigan children. She failed to answer a letter the younger boy sent her at the time, begging to be rescued from the farm. Mollie protests that she had been seriously ill when the letter arrived and was unable to even read it until well after the boy was dead. To this day, she says, she is haunted by her failure to help the children out of their circumstances.

Mollie Ralston, a tall, pretty woman in her late twenties. Having inherited Monkswell Manor from her aunt, she has decided to turn it into a guest house rather than sell it. Some years earlier, she had taught at the school that the Corrigan children attended. Jimmy Corrigan sent her a letter revealing that his foster parents, the Stannings of Longridge Farm, were abusing him, and he pleaded with her to help. Because she fell ill with pneumonia on the very day that the letter arrived, she did not see it until weeks later, by which time Jimmy was dead. A potential murder victim because of her connection with Jimmy’s death, she is also a suspect in the killing of the other two women who were involved in the tragedy. She secretly went to London on the day Mrs. Stanning was killed and is the first to find the body of Mrs. Boyle.

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When the child of a wealthy family is kidnapped right under the noses of the parents and the police, Poirot is called in to help. She's like Santa Clause or something when it comes to who has been bad or good, and her friends and neighbors would do well to listen to her advice when it comes to the hiring and firing of servants.

Giles Ralston, Mollie’s husband of exactly one year. He is handsome and about Mollie’s age. The two married only three weeks after meeting, so his past remains a mystery. He, too, made a clandestine trip to London on the day of Mrs. Stanning’s death, and he wears a coat, scarf, and hat like those seen on the killer. Act II: Ten minutes after Mollie finds Mrs Boyle dead of strangulation, Sergeant Trotter takes charge of the household. All the remaining residents are gathered in one room as he attempts to sort out the events of the evening. M. Carlson (1993). "Is there a real inspector Hound? Mousetraps, deathtraps, and the disappearing detective". Modern Drama. Hakkert. 36 (3): 431–442. doi: 10.3138/md.36.3.431. ISSN 0026-7694. INIST 24084, 35400002380674.0070. urn:lcp:mousetrap0000agat:epub:6b337acb-bf21-4143-a88f-3672c4bd4a5e Foldoutcount 0 Identifier mousetrap0000agat Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2h2tswkg94 Invoice 1652 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001281 Openlibrary_edition

This is a pretty decent collection. For me, the title story is probably the best, but there are some other good ones mixed in with it. A little Marple, a little Poirot, and even some Mr. Quin/Mr. Satterthwiate to go with the stand-alone Three Blind Mice. The Mousetrap was originally a 1947 radio play titled Three Blind Mice. Christie wrote the story for Queen Mary's 80th birthday. After extensive reworking, Three Blind Mice became The Mousetrap and was ready for a live audience. Act I opens with the murder of a woman named Maureen Lyon, played out in sound only. The action then moves to Monkswell Manor, recently converted to a guesthouse and run by a young couple, Mollie and Giles Ralston. While waiting for the guests to arrive, Mollie listens to a radio report about the Lyon murder, which notes that police are looking for a man in a dark overcoat, observed near the scene. The Mousetrap is by Agatha Christie, The genre-defining writer is referred to as the “queen of crime”; she wrote 66 novels throughout her career and was awarded a damehood for services to literature. Even if you’ve never seen The Mousetrap on stage, it’s likely you’ve heard of Agatha Christie’s famous works, such as Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and And Then There Were None. Agatha Christie also gave birth to literary characters: Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and amateur detective Miss Marple, are Christie's doing. The play's longevity has ensured its popularity with tourists from around the world. In 1997, at the initiative of producer Stephen Waley-Cohen, the theatrical education charity Mousetrap Theatre Projects was launched, helping young people experience London's theatre. [9]

April 1958 – Longest-ever run of a show in the West End with 2,239 performances (the previous holder was Chu Chin Chow) Uno de los puntos a favor de este recopilatorio es que incluye tanto historias de Poirot como de Miss Marple como historias independientes sin ninguno de esos dos detectives (Harley Quin es uno de los nuevos y seré simple, pero me ha hecho mucha gracia), así que tenemos aquí reunidas unas cuantas muestras variadas de lo que es capaz de hacer la Reina del Crimen.This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater. Es un mini relato en el que por primera vez veo aparecer a Miss Marple. El relato me ha dejado totalmente indiferente ya que es muy corto y la trama no es gran cosa, pero me ha sorprendido el ingenio de miss Marple. For his ninth birthday, Agatha Christie’s grandson Mathew Pritchard was given the rights to the play. After royalties from the rights to the play, Pritchard set up the Colwinston Charitable Trust in 1995 to distribute the royalties to performing organisations. Saunders, Tristram Fane (18 May 2016). "10 things you didn't know about The Mousetrap". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022.