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
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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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