| SERGEANTTROTTER | Detective character in Agatha Christie's popular murder mystery play The Mousetrap (8,7) |
| AGATHA | _ Christie, author of the long-running murder mystery play The Mousetrap (6) |
| CHARITIES | Trusts lead character in Agatha Christie's novel (9) |
| JACK | - Irish, Australian detective character in the Peter Temple novels, played on TV by Guy Pearce (4) |
| ASSASSINATE | Foolish twins downed by popular murder |
| GERALDINEMCEWAN | ____ starred in Agatha Christie's Marple on ITV |
| BENJAMINBRITTEN | ____'s Noyes Fludde is based on a Chester mystery play |
| CHRISTIE | Agatha ___; author whose works include Hercule Poirot's Christmas, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and the play The Mousetrap (8) |
| THEMOUSETRAP | Murder mystery play by Agatha Christie running in the West End since 1952 (3,9) |
| MOUSETRAP | The ____ , murder mystery play by Agatha Christie that premiered in 1952 (9) |
| CLARKE | Sir Carmichael ___, the C of murder victims in in Agatha Christie's novel The ABC Murders |
| ANDOVER | In Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders, the first murder is in this Hampshire town (7) |
| END | Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap has been running for over 50 years in London's theatre district, the West ... |
| VICARAGE | Word for the clergy house or parsonage where a murder takes place in Agatha Christie's debut Miss Marple novel first published by the Collins Crime Club in 1930 (8) |
| POIROT | Fictional detective in Agatha Christie's stories including Murder on the Orient Express (6) |
| ARSENIC | In Agatha Christie's After The Funeral, in what has a piece of wedding cake been soaked? (7) |
| SUCHET | Surname of David who played the title role in Agatha Christie's Poirot (6) |
| JULIA | Actress who has played the title role in Agatha Christie's Marple, _ McKenzie (5) |
| TUPPENCE | Little change previously seen in Agatha Christie detective (8) |
| EVERYMAN | Mystery play character always male, reeling in the years (8) |
