At Agatha Christie’s request the story will not be published in the UK while The Mousetrap, the 1952 stage play adaptation, is still running in the West End. The novella was never published in the UK. Agatha Christie then adapted the 30-minute radio play in 1948 to a novella, published in the US in Cosmopolitan magazine in May 1948, and later in the 1950 US collection Three Blind Mice and Other Stories. The radio play was first broadcast on the BBC in 1947. It was a case that shocked the nation and resulted in the changing of the laws surrounding foster care a couple of years later. The idea for the radio play came, as was often the case with Christie, from a real-life news story in 1945 about two brothers abused in foster care, one of whom died as a result.
Unfortunately no recording of the original performance exists. She donated her fee of one hundred Guineas to the Southport Infirmary Children’s Toy Fund. The BBC got in touch with Christie and asked if she would like to write a short radio play for the Queen, which she happily obliged to and created “Three Blind Mice”. When Queen Mary was asked what she would like for her 80th birthday, she requested a new story from one of her favourite writers, Agatha Christie. The title of the story comes from the nursery rhyme “Three Blind Mice”. Out of this deceptively simple setup, Agatha Christie fashioned one of her most ingenious puzzlers, which in turn would provide the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history.
“Three Blind Mice”: A blinding snowstorm-and a homicidal maniac-traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate. Synopsis: Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Stories-a classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest running stage play in the history of the London theatre. The later collections The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960), Poirot’s Early Cases (1974), Miss Marple’s Final Cases and Two Other Stories (1979), and Problem at Pollensa Bay (1992) reprint between them all the stories in this collection except the title story “Three Blind Mice”, an alternate version of the play The Mousetrap, and the only Christie short story not published in the UK. Three Blind Mice and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Agatha Christie, first published in the US only by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1950. Desplazarse hacia abajo para ver la versión en español
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