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For the first time in a single combined B format, a new edition of Agatha Christie's eight stage plays, published to coincide with the 60th Anniversary Year of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history. The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of London's West End, begins its 60th Year run on 25 November 2011. This new edition of eight works show how Agatha Christie's plays are as compulsive as her novels, their colourful characters and ingenious plots providing yet more evidence of her mastery of the detective thriller. The Mousetrap: Cut off by snowdrifts, the owners of a new guest house encounter terror when one of their first visitors turns out to be a homicidal maniac… And then there were none: Ten guilty people are lured to an island mansion where an unknown killer begins to exact revenge. Appointment with Death: The suffocating heat of an exotic Middle-Eastern setting provides a backdrop for murder. The Hollow: Beneath their respectable surface, a set of friends realize that any one of them could be a murderer. Witness for the Prosecution: A scheming wife testifies against her husband in a shocking murder trial. Towards Zero: A psychopathic killer stalks unsuspecting victims in a seaside house perched high on a cliff. Verdict: Passion and love are the deadly ingredients in this thriller in which a murder causes an unexpected chain of events. Go Back for Murder: A young woman discovers that her late mother was imprisoned for murdering her father and is determined to prove her innocence.