The Mousetrap is Agatha Christie's celebrated murder mystery, the longest continuously running play in history, in which a group of strangers find themselves snowbound together at a newly opened guesthouse, Monkswell Manor, cut off from the outside world by a sudden blizzard. When news arrives that a murderer is on the loose in the area, and then a killing occurs within the house itself, the guests and their young hosts realize with mounting dread that the culprit must be one of them. As a police detective arrives on skis to investigate, suspicion ripples through the group, each guest harboring secrets and plausible motives. Christie's meticulous plotting doles out clues and red herrings in equal measure, building to a famously guarded twist ending that audiences are traditionally asked never to reveal. The play's tight setting, ensemble of vivid suspects, and airtight construction have made it a gold standard of the whodunit genre for community and professional theaters alike.

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