The Mousetrap

A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicious in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are spinster with a curious background an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives, when the jurist is killed. Another famous Agatha Christie switch finish! Chalk up another superb intrigue for the foremost mystery writer of her time.