Monday, January 21, 2019

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

(pb; 1940: previously titled Ten Little Indians)

From the back cover

“Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious ‘U.N. Owen.’

“At dinner, a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead.

“Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one. . .as one by one. . .they begin to die.

“Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?”


Review

 None is one of my all-time-favorite murder mysteries. It is a classic English waste-no-words and clever trapped-on-an-island work, one that thrills from the first word to the last. Worth owning, this.

This novel has inspired several movies under both titles.

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