Word: gentlefolk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot of the 1952 play was distinctly threadbare: seven candidates for the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association trapped by a blizzard in a provincial guesthouse with a maniacal killer. But Murder Manufacturer Agatha Christie said optimistically, "I do think we will get quite a good run out of it," as she signed over all royalties to her grandson Mathew Prichard, 9. Twenty-one years later, The Mousetrap has become the longest running play ever, totting up 8,717 performances in London and earning $7.5 million. Prichard, now 30 and a gentleman farmer in Wales, declined to comment...