Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the best-selling novelist of all time and the writer the world calls the "Queen of Crime." Born Agatha Miller in Torquay, Devon, she came to fiction on a dare: her sister Madge bet she could not write a convincing detective story, and the result, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Her dispensing work in a hospital pharmacy during the First World War, repeated again during the Second, gave her the expert knowledge...
Mousetrap and Other Plays
Mousetrap and Other Plays
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A collection of eight stage plays by Agatha Christie, published in 1978: And Then There Were None, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, The Mousetrap, Witness for the Prosecution, Towards Zero, Verdict, and Go Back for Murder. Most are Christie's own adaptations of her earlier novels and short stories for the stage; Verdict is the only play written directly for the theatre rather than adapted from prose. The Mousetrap, expanded from a radio play, remains the longest continuously running play in the world.
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The Mousetrap and Other PlaysMass Market Paperback, Janu
691 pages
HarperCollins PublishersLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97800610037455 editions available
