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Agatha Christie memorial

A bronze book with Christie's face in it, on the corner where The Mousetrap has run since 1952.

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Photo by Diagram Lajard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Ben Twiston-Davies's memorial of 2012 marks the sixtieth year of The Mousetrap, which opened at the Ambassadors and moved next door to the St Martin's Theatre in 1974, the longest run in the world. The book stands open on its spine with her profile in relief, and the titles of the novels are lettered along the pages; the theatre where the play still asks its audience to keep the secret is a few yards up West Street. She wrote sixty-six detective novels, and the play's twist is not in this note.

Where
Cranbourn Street, WC2H 7AD
Nearest station
Leicester Square · 1 min walk

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