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The Mousetrap & Selected Plays

by Agatha Christie

Go back for murder: Before dying in prison for supposedly poisoning her husband fifteen years ago, Caroline Crale wrote her daughter Carla that she was clearly innocent. Carla, aided by Justin Fogg -- who as a young solicitor fell in love with Caroline -- persuades those present that fatal day to return to the scene of the crime to find out what really happened that fateful day. Appointment with death: An assorted group of travellers find themselves thrown together on an expedition to the rose red city of Petra. When one of them is found dead, the group find themselves among the suspects. The hollow: An unhappy game of romantic follow-the-leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell. The mousetrap: A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?