Presentation about the longest running play The Mousetrap written by Agatha Christie, with a description about the characters.

10. Characters

11. Mollie Ralston
• Mollie Ralston, the wife of Giles Ralston, is the
owner of Monkswell Manor. She inherited it from
her aunt. An ordinarily attractive, level-headed
young woman, her perfectly reasonable and
achievable goal is the development of Monkswell
Manor into a pleasant livelihood for herself and
her husband. Her unfaltering sympathetic
feelings towards a young, male guest draws some
ire from her husband of one year. Mollie is a
young woman with secrets.

13. Giles Ralston
• Giles Ralston is Mollie's husband. The two
married only three weeks after meeting. So, his
past is a bit of a mystery. He's very jealous, loyal
and protective towards his wife. During the
course of the night, Mollie senses he is acting
somewhat distant and is forced to address
suspicions raised about a clandestine trip he
made to London on the day of Mrs. Stanning’s
death. He wears a coat, scarf, and hat similar to
those seen on the killer, but it is not just these
accoutrements, in the coat’s pocket, there is
something incriminating.

15. Christopher Wren
• Christopher Wren is a capricious, obviously
neurotic young man; behavior that makes him an
apparent suspect as the night progresses, which
angers him at one point. The first guest to arrive
at Monkswell Manor, he makes himself at home,
which rubs Giles the wrong way from the get-go,
especially the attention he is given by Mollie. He
admits he is running away from something, but
refuses to say what. Wren claims to have been
named after the architect.

17. Mrs. Boyle
• Mrs. Boyle is an old English fuddy-duddy. Forced
by the weather to share a taxi from the train
station, she and Major Metcalf arrive together.
She surveys everything with displeasure and
looks at her surroundings disapprovingly. From
the moment of her arrival, she complains about
everything from the furnishings to the service.
Her agitating disposition is so infuriating to the
guests, they would literally like to strangle her.

19. Major Metcalf
• Major Metcalf is a typical retired British military officer.
He doesn't say a whole lot. He is more of an observer.
However, what you see is not exactly what you get.
• Major Metcalf is middle-aged, square-shouldered,
military in manner and bearing. He is friendly and very
polite, and serves as a good counter to Mrs. Boyle
during the play’s first act. The audience learns in the
final scene that Metcalf is a policeman who is at the
guest house undercover to help find a murderer and to
provide protection to the possible victims.

21. Miss Katherine Casewell
• Miss Katherine Casewell is the last of the
booked guests to arrive at Monkswell Manor.
She is very reserved in her demeanor and
remains mysteriously indifferent to the other
guests and takes exception to being
interrogated about who she is, where she is
from, and her reason for coming to Monkswell
Manor.

23. Mr. Paravicini
• Mr. Paravicini is an unexpected guest at
Monkswell Manor with some unusual
peculiarities. Claiming his car has overturned in a
snowdrift, he asserts the snow has blocked the
roads and that everyone in the house is now
trapped. The other guests hypothesize over his
strange accent and wonder about his true age;
Mr. Paravicini appears to have artificially made
himself look older with the use of make-up. He
also likes to stir the pot.

25. Detective Sergeant Trotter
• Detective Sergeant Trotter is a late arriving guest at
Monkswell Manor. Mollie answered a telephone call
from Superintendent Hogben of the Berkshire Police
telling her that he was dispatching Sergeant Trotter to
the guest house, and that the Ralstons must listen
carefully to what he has to tell them. The Ralstons
wonder what they could have done to garner police
attention. Arriving on skis, Detective Trotter proceeds
to question everyone in an effort to establish a
relationship between any of the guests and a murder
already committed at another location.