Attendees at St Martin's Theatre often get their photo taken beside the wooden counter (showing a count of the number of performances) in the theatre foyer. The longest-running West End show, it has by far the longest run of any play in the world, with its 28,915th performance having taken place as of November 2022. The Mousetrap opened in London's West End in 1952 and ran continuously until 16 March 2020, when the stage performances had to be temporarily discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mousetrap is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. a good read.A guest house, Monkswell Manor, wintertime "in the present day" i'm trying to remember if there is/was some sort of twist ending.sometimes those are okay, sometimes not.but i don't recall. then, at last, he turned away from the railing and began moving away from the lamppost."Īction, dialogue, scenes/settings, the action unfolds. the old man stood listening in seeming fascination, his head bent. the ukulele kept plinking its notes onto the sticky night air. the instrument sounded tinny on the night, something from another time and place, like the old man himself. on one of the boats, someone was playing a ukulele. ![]() "the old man was standing by the sidewalk railing some ten feet from the street lamp, looking out over the boats in their marina slips. Simple straight-forward story telling, nothing fancy, nothing sweet and smarmy. picked up a used hardcover over at the book worm.book world.whatever, over by the d-q. I think this was the first mcbain story i read. I'm looking forward to reading other Matthew Hope books. Romance, murder, tangled webs-a great bed-time mystery that is fun, but will not give you nightmares when you turn out the light. Yes, this is McBain, perhaps not at his best, but still writing page-turners. We have our requisite murders, the wrong person arrested, the district attorney who wants a fast settlement of the trial for political reasons, and a dogged attorney who wants the right person arrested and justice found. And maybe that's one reason I really enjoyed the book it was a bit like going home and visiting old friends, though I never knew any of those folks. Matthew Hope is a partner in a law firm in Calusa, FL, located on the "other west coast" – the west coast of Florida, not far from where I used to live. As fun as murder and wrongly accused suspects can be -)Įd McBain is probably better known for his 87th Precinct novels than his Matthew Hope series. If you're a hard core mystery buff, this may not be your book, but if you're like me, and pick one up now and again, and are looking more for a novel of escape and, well, brain candy, this is a lot of fun. I was fascinated to learn things I never knew about the Vietnamese alphabet but I had to wade through a good bit of silliness to get there. It didn’t enhance much the knowledge you really needed to solve this, and I can’t figure out why a guy with McBain’s obvious talent felt the need to include that stuff in his book. McBain describes one character’s fantasies about where he would like to lick another character. ![]() This book includes a good bit of stuff that is juvenile and superfluous. ![]() It is a case that will be fraught with misunderstandings, many of them cultural and linguistic in nature. But before he can succeed, an aging Vietnamese immigrant will be murdered because of what he knows about the case. Naturally, when they are murdered, he is the first and only suspect.ĭefense attorney Matthew Hope is convinced of the man’s innocence, and he sets out to prove that someone else killed the immigrants. When the three men are murdered in a manner most nasty, few in the Florida community that is the setting for this book are saddened by the deaths.īut the husband of the woman whom the three raped loudly insisted in the final moments of their trial that he would kill them. Three Vietnamese immigrants have been acquitted of rape, but McBain makes it reasonably clear at least early on that they were guilty.
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