69 pages • 2 hours read
The Mousetrap
Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950
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Introduction
The Mousetrap
- Genre: Play; mystery
- Originally Published: 1950
- Reading Level/Interest: College/Adult
- Structure/Length: Two acts, two scenes; approx. 70 pages
- Protagonist/Central Conflict: Seven strangers are snowed in at a remote guesthouse in the country. A police sergeant arrives and tells them there is a killer among them, and the strangers are forced to reveal their sordid pasts. But who is the killer?
- Potential Sensitivity Issues: Murder; stereotypes; racial slurs
Agatha Christie, Author
- Bio: 1890-1976; English writer known as the “Queen of Crime” for her detective novels and for writing the world’s longest-running play, The Mousetrap; studied voice and piano in Paris at 16; served as a nurse during WWI; wrote over 70 detective and mystery novels in her lifetime, many adapted to stage plays and film; earned the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award in 1955; awarded the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971; holds the title of the most-translated individual author and a Guinness World Record for best-selling fiction writer of all time with more than two billion copies sold
- Other Works: Murder on the Orient Express (1934); Death on the Nile (1937); And Then There Were None (1939); A Pocket Full of Rye (1953); Sleeping Murder (1976)
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