![]() ![]() But I don’t know why or what”-but Marple readily agrees to investigate. ![]() Ruth is rather vague as to what the problem might be-“Something is wrong down there. Carrie Louise’s sister Ruth begs Miss Marple to visit Stonygates and figure out what’s going on there. Like so many of her books, Mirrors takes place at a country house, in this case Stonygates, home to one of Miss Marple’s old school friends, Carrie Louise Serrocold. ![]() ![]() A reader who spent a year reviewing every single Christie novel ranked it at #54 (out of 78). I’d put They Do It with Mirrors in the latter category-it’s clever, of course, but not knock-your-socks-off clever. Some of the solutions she presents are so memorable that I can remember exactly whodunit and why, even years later. What could be less cutting-edge than Agatha Christie’s 65-year-old war horse? Nevertheless, this theatrical comfort food proved as popular in Berkeley, California, as it has been in London’s West End, where “The Mousetrap” has run continuously since 1952 it sold out every performance, and if the theater didn’t have a new production scheduled for early February, I have no doubt that it could have continued packing ’em in for weeks to come.Ĭhristie’s books still attract millions of readers who love her breezy writing style and ingenious mysteries. A local theater known for presenting edgy, adventurous plays surprised many of its fans by opening “The Mousetrap” late last year. ![]()
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