And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None
Ten strangers. An island. A rhyme. No way off. Christie constructed the perfect trap and no one has escaped it since 1939.
Ten Little Soldiers
Agatha Christie's 1939 masterpiece follows ten strangers who accept invitations to a remote island off the Devon coast, only to find their mysterious hosts absent and a gramophone accusing each of them of a past killing for which they were never punished. Then they begin to die, one by one, in the manner of the old nursery rhyme. There is no killer from outside. There is no way to leave. The novel is the best-selling mystery novel ever written and arguably the most ingenious puzzle Christie ever devised. It has sold over 100 million copies and been adapted for stage, film, and television numerous times.
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"Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine.
"Agatha Christie · And Then There Were None
Christie said in her autobiography that the novel was the most difficult she ever wrote because the solution had to be both inevitable in retrospect and completely hidden throughout. She spent six months on the logistics alone.
The novel was originally published under a title now considered offensive. It was changed to And Then There Were None in the United States in 1940 and eventually became the standard title worldwide. The island is unnamed in the novel.