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Mrs. Boyle - the unpleasant retired magistrate - has just been murdered, and Sergeant Trotter believes it is because she was responsible for sending three young children to foster care at Longridge Farm, where they were regularly abused. One child died, and as a result, one of the surviving siblings seems to be out for revenge. Mollie Ralston, the owner of Monkswell Manor (where everyone is now snowed in), has asked to speak with Trotter privately regarding the Longridge case. But where she
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Trotter: Yes, Mrs. Ralston, _(moving above the armchair centre) _what is it you want to say to me?
Mollie: (moving up to left of Trotter) Sergeant Trotter, you think that this - (she moves below the sofa) this crazy killer must be the - eldest of those three boys at the Farm - but you don’t know that, do you?
End:
Mollie: I don’t believe it!
Trotter: Don’t you? (He moves up right to the arch with the coat.) Don’t you?
Christie, Agatha. The Mousetrap. Samuel French, 1982, pp 61-66.
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