MOUSETRAP, THE


Meaning of MOUSETRAP, THE in English

Mousetrap, The BrE AmE

a play by Agatha ↑ Christie , which was first performed in the ↑ West End of London in 1952, and has been performed there continuously for longer than any other play in the world. It is a ↑ whodunit (=a play about a murder in which you do not find out who did the murder until the end) .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.