The Mousetrap

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The Mousetrap (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

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Monkswell Manor. Guest house located thirty miles west of London, in Berkshire County, in which the play is set. The stage is set as one large room with tall windows. A door and two arched openings lead off to numerous other rooms, hidden spaces beneath staircases, and a basement, which was perhaps once a crypt. Snowbound, the owners and guests feel cut off from the world; even the telephone stops working. Detective Sergeant Trotter startles them when he raps on the big window. A murder was committed the previous day in Paddington, an area of London, and he...

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• Agatha Christie (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Agatha Christie (Mystery and Detective Fiction)
• Agatha Christie (Dictionary of World Biography)
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• Agatha Christie (Long Fiction)

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