Synchronicity

Poster for 'The Mousetrap'

Synchronicity occurred this morning, when the TLS arrived with a piece about Agatha Christie illustrated by a poster for  her ‘The Mousetrap’ play on the back page. My middle grandson aged 10 saw the play in London on Monday, plus a real mouse. I saw Richard Attenborough in it when I was about 10 too, back in 1954.

I can highly recommend Andrew Eames's book '8.55 to Baghdad', where he follows in Christie's footsteps on the train from Victoria to Baghdad  thence to meet the man who was to become her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan.

Also, the new adaptation of her 'Ordeal by Innocence' on BBC TV.