Woman's History Month: "The Mousetrap" by Agatha Christie
“The Mousetrap” by Agatha Christie In honor of Women's History Month, we will be discussing one of the world's most famous writers - British author and playwright - and her most successful works, The Mousetrap (deemed as the world's longest running play). According to her official website, going against her mother's wishes to wait she began reading at a very young age. She was homeschooled by her American father, meaning she had a lot of time in which she spent in solitude. By the age of eleven, Agatha had one her many poems published in a local newspaper. After making a bet with her sister, she moved on to writing a detective novel. Among 66 detective stories and short-story collections, Agatha wrote the play The Mousetrap . Synopsis via Agatha Christie’s official site The scene is set when a group of people gathered in a country house cut off by the snow discover, to their horror, that there is a murderer in their midst. Who can it be? One by one the
