• Friday, Dec 17, 2021 / 8:00pm

Agatha Christie famously wrote the longest-running play in the history of the English speaking theatre: "The Mousetrap" (now in its 69th year in London’s West End). Her second longest-running success is an intricately plotted mystery with comedic overtones which involves discovering a hidden treasure of unsuspected value, a young girl’s fascination with witchcraft and a hostess who must keep a murder from interfering with an important diplomatic conference. After Clarissa Brown convinces her husband (a Foreign Office diplomat) and his two colleagues to help her hide a murdered body, the conference commences; but it’s soon interrupted by the arrival of the police, who’ve been summoned by a mysterious call. To her chagrin, when Clarissa tries to lead the police to the body, it’s disappeared. Usually adept at spinning tales of adventure to amuse her husband’s colleagues, Clarissa learns that facts can be far more terrifying than fiction. Once again, Dame Agatha succeeds in weaving her various plots into a surprisingly suspenseful evening.