No one has left or entered the island, so the killer is one of them. The millionaire never existed, and someone tricked all of them to come onto the island so that they could kill off each and every one of them with very little chance of escape or rescue. The next morning, another is found dead, and the weight of their situation fully dawns upon all of them someone on the island wants them all dead. Shortly after, the first guest dies, poisoned by cyanide. It turns out that they’ve all been accused of murder, and so very few of them are actually willing to admit it. Later that night while all attending a dinner party and awaiting the arrival of their host, a gramophone recording plays out and reveals a terrible deed that every person has been involved with. Even as they all arrive, they begin to wonder what could possibly be the reason that brought this random assortment of people together? Each person seems to be hiding something, keeping everyone at a safe distance, and figure out why they’re all there.Ī framed nursery rhyme called “Ten Little Soldiers” (or titled something else, based off what edition you read) is hung in every guest’s room, and the dining room table set with ten little figures. Ten Strangers end up on a small island off the coast of England, all at the invitation of a reclusive and eccentric millionaire who none of them know. As soon as you even begin to stop and catch your breath, something happens that takes the rug out from beneath your feet, the floor crumbles and takes you out and forces you forward, deeper into the depths with no hope of seeing light ever again. Despite the light amount of pages and her delicacy with her prose, her stories are so dark an harrowing, they rarely allow yourself to get comfortable. You could easily read her works in one sitting, and I appreciate the fact about it is that it’s because the author was so no nonsense, and just got straight to the point in her style of writing. if you look at most of her work, you see that they aren’t exactly thick pieces of literature.
It’s strange yet fascinating how the author was able to tell such iconic tales with the level of simplicity that she brought. it’s not soft, or warm, and it’s about as charming as a graveyard. Never before has a murder mystery novel like this been referenced as much as it has, even almost 70 years later, and no writer ever can quite match the harsh, blunt and rigid words of Agatha Christie and her dark tales. The mystery to inspire many mysteries, And Then There Were None is perhaps the masterpiece of the Queen of mystery herself, Agatha Christie. Genre(s): Mystery Total Star Rating: 4 Stars
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