Summary
She mulls over her writing. When speaking about The Mousetrap, London's longestrunning play, she says its success was '90 per cent luck' and that there was 'a bit of something in it for everybody', although she never imagined it would go on for so long. But she is also immensely humble: 'I must say I had no feeling whatsoever I had a great success on my hands . . . I was a bit depressed about it, I remember.' Yet she also believes deeply in her characters.
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Mystery of the Missing Tapes
One hot summer's afternoon in London, when I was five or six, I was sent to the garden of our house in Chelsea, rather than attending a birthday party, to contemplate a naughty deed. I can't remember my crime, but I can remember swaying too violently on a vivid orange hammock, and falling on my head with a thump. Before long, a smart old lady wi...
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