And Then There Were None

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Summary

Genre: Thriller, Murder Mystery, Locked Room

Format: Novel

Setting: Island

Location: England

Synopsis

Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a lonely mansion on Soldier Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they start to die...

Possibly her most famous book, and certainly the most adapted, Christie used different endings for the novel and her stage adaptation, giving the stage version a happier ending. The Boston Transcript wrote, “For absolute horror and complete bafflement Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, takes all prizes.” It has been filmed five times.

What fans say

: HeiseiHolmes
" I'll never forget how I found this book... I was in my favourite ever bookshop- (now sadly closed a few weeks ago) and a complete stranger handed me this. All she said was: "If you're looking for Agatha Christie... This is the best one." And then she disappeared like smoke on the breeze! (Well, not really. I'm being poetic again- she just walked away.) But it was a great book, and I wholeheartedly agree with you, Mysterious Stranger Lady. "
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: Quension
"My elder brother bought this book in 1999 or 1998. I was 12-13 years old. "Bro, you got to read this novel" he said. I replied, "okay okay". I had started reading the book unwillingly but as soon as I finished the book; she made me her fan. I said to myself "How could a person type these kinds of bad things in a way which is kind of extraordinary" This is the first Agatha book ever I have read. Actually, I can't say that this book's my favourite; because my favourite book is "Death comes as the end" but this is really amazing. "
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Christie trivia And Then There Were None

The first of several Christie stories based on nursery rhymes, this deals out ten mysterious murders, and none was more satisfied at the conclusion of this cryptic puzzle than the author herself:

"I had written the book," she recalled, "because it was so difficult to do that the idea had fascinated me. Ten people had to die without it becoming ridiculous or the murderer being obvious. I wrote the book after a tremendous amount of planning, and I was pleased with what I had made of it. It was clear, straightforward, baffling, and yet had a perfectly reasonable explanantion; in fact, it had to have an epilogue in order to explain it. It was well received and reviewed, but the person who was really pleased with it was myself, for I knew better than any critic how difficult it had been".