And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie Wiki. Cover of first edition featuring the original title, Ten Little Niggers, which was changed in the US, and at a later date in the UK, due to the presence of the pejorative term. And Then There Were None is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1.
Ten Little Niggers and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company in January 1. And Then There Were None. In the novel, ten people, who have previously been complicit in the deaths of others but have escaped notice and/or punishment, are tricked into coming onto an island.
Even though the guests are the only people on the island, they are all mysteriously murdered one by one, in a manner paralleling, inexorably and sometimes grotesquely, the old nursery rhyme, . The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2. The novel has also been published and filmed under the title Ten Little Indians. It has been adapted into several plays, films, and a video game.
Marston, General Mac. Arthur, Miss Emily Brent, Justice Wargrave, Dr. Armstrong, Ex- inspector Blore, Mr. Lombard and Miss Vera Claythorne have been invited to a mansion on the fictional Soldier Island (. U. N. Owen (Ulick Norman Owen and Una Nancy Owen), are currently away, but that the guests will be attended to by Thomas and Ethel Rogers. Each guest finds in his or her room an odd bit of bric- a- brac and a framed copy of the nursery rhyme . During the meal, a gramophone record plays, informing the ten that each is guilty of murder.
Each guest acknowledges an awareness of (and, in some cases, involvement with) the deaths of the persons mentioned, but denies either malice and/or legal culpability. They are murdered one by one, each murder paralleling a verse of the nursery rhyme, and one of the ten figurines being removed after each murder.
That night, Thomas Rogers notices that a figurine is missing from the dining table. Rogers dies in her sleep that night, which Dr. Armstrong attributes to a fatal overdose of sleeping draught (. General Mac. Arthur fatalistically predicts that no one will leave the island alive, and at lunch, is indeed found dead from a blow to the back of the skull (.
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Meanwhile, two more figurines have disappeared from the dining room. In growing panic, the survivors search the island in vain for the murderer. Justice Wargrave establishes himself as a decisive leader of the group and asserts that one of them must be the murderer playing a sadistic game with the rest. The killer's twisted humor is evidenced by the names of their . The next morning, Rogers is missing, as is another figurine. He is found dead in the woodshed, struck in the head with an axe (.
Later that day, Emily Brent is killed in the kitchen by an injection of potassium cyanide that leaves a mark on her neck (. The hypodermic needle is found outside her window next to a smashed china figurine. The five survivors — Dr. Armstrong, Justice Wargrave, Philip Lombard, Vera Claythorne, and ex- Inspector Blore — become increasingly frightened. Lombard admits to bringing a revolver to the island, but says it has gone missing. Resolved to keep the killer from catching anyone alone, they gather in the drawing room and only leave one at a time. Vera goes up to her room and discovers a strand of seaweed: an allusion to the boy the gramophone alleged she had drowned.
Her screams attract the attention of Blore, Lombard, and Armstrong, who rush to her aid. When they return to the drawing room, they find Wargrave in a mockery of a judicial wig and gown with a gunshot wound in his forehead (. Armstrong confirms the death, and they lay Wargrave's body in his room. Shortly afterward, Lombard discovers his revolver has been returned. He and Lombard investigate and, discovering Armstrong missing, assume the doctor is the killer. They wake Vera and the three spend the night outdoors.
In the morning, Blore leaves for food and does not return. Vera and Lombard soon discover his body on the front lawn, skull crushed by a bear- shaped clock (. Paranoid, each assumes the other is the murderer. In the tense standoff that follows, Vera feigns compassion and has Lombard help her move Armstrong's body out of the water, using the opportunity to relieve him of his revolver. She kills Lombard on the beach (. Dazed and disoriented, Vera is unsurprised to find a noose prepared in her room. In a trance of exhaustion, guilt, and relief, she hangs herself, fulfilling the final verse of the rhyme.
There are no clues on the mainland—the man who arranged . Lombard's gun having Vera's fingerprints and the clock that killed Blore came from her room point to Vera as .
Yet all the murders appear to be accounted for, and the inspectors are baffled. He reveals a lifelong sadistic temperament juxtaposed uneasily with a fierce sense of justice: he wanted to torture, terrify, and kill, but could never justify harming an innocent. As a judge, he directed merciless summations and guilty verdicts, but limited to those cases in which he has satisfied himself of the guilt of the defendant(s), thrilling at the sight of the convicted person crippled with fear, facing their impending death. But the proxy of the bench was unsatisfying: Wargrave longed to commit murder by his own hand.
Prompted to action by the discovery that he was terminally ill, he sought killers who had escaped justice and lured them to the island. As he killed them one by one, he reveled in the mounting terror of those who remained, their reactions to the murders confirming their guilt to his extensive judicial experience. He also kills the guests by order of their level of guilt, first killing those whose crimes were less direct or out of carelessness, or who felt some level of remorse, and saving the most cold- blooded killers for last.
That night, he met Armstrong on the cliffs and pushed him into the sea, knowing the doctor's disappearance would provoke the suspicions of the others. From Vera's room, Wargrave pushed the stone bear- shaped clock onto Blore, crushing his skull. He then watched Vera shoot Lombard.
He also watched as Vera hanged herself. Wargrave pushed the chair she stood on against the wall, wrote out his confession, put the letter in a bottle and tossed it out the sea. Wargrave admits to craving posthumous recognition of his scheme.
Even if his letter is not found, he argues that three clues exist implicating him, although he surmises (correctly) that the mystery will not have been solved. Wargrave was the only one invited to the island who had not wrongfully caused someone's death.
Edward Seton, whom the gramophone accused Wargrave of wrongfully sentencing to death, was, in fact, guilty of the murder for which he was convicted, and overwhelming proof emerged, albeit posthumously, of this. Thus, ironically, the only innocent guest must be the murderer. Of the remaining guests, only the respectable Justice Wargrave would have inspired the doctor's confidence.
He will then wrap a handkerchief around the handle of the gun and shoot himself in the head. His body will fall back as though laid there by Armstrong. The gun's recoil will send it to the doorknob and out into the hallway, detaching the cord and pulling the door closed.
The cord will dangle innocuously from his glasses; the stray handkerchief should not arouse suspicion. Marston, a mindless as well as conscienceless killer by carelessness is put down first like a dangerous animal. Rogers, the tool of her husband, is is given a relatively merciful death as is General Mac.
Arthur whose crime was one of passion. Rogers, a killer for gain, suffers a bloody death and Miss Brent, the self- righteous killer, is on the verge of breakdown before she dies.
The final five are all guilty of betraying a trust; Dr. Armstrong killed a patient by his drunken negligence; Blore, a police officer, gave false testimony against an innocent man; Lombard betrayed men under his command, colored or not; but Wargrave judged Vera Claythorn the worst of the lot for killing a child in her care. Stage and film adaptations have often varied with names and backgrounds, such as Judge Wargrave being renamed Quinncannon and Lombard accused of causing the death of his pregnant girlfriend. He was born to a wealthy family. Owen accused Anthony of running over and killing two children.
Marston not only felt no remorse he couldn't even remember the incident. He was the first of Owen's victims, poisoned by potassium cyanide slipped into his drink. Ethel Rogers, the cook and Mr. She is described as a pale- faced, ghostlike woman with shifty light eyes, who is scared easily.
Despite her respectability and efficiency, she was obliged to help her domineering husband, Thomas, to kill their former elderly employer, Miss Jennifer Brady, by withholding her medicine, in order to inherit her money. The terrified and remorseful Mrs.
Rogers is the second victim dying a merciful death in her sleep. Of all the victims he comes the closest to experiencing genuine remorse. He fatalistically accepts that no one will leave the island alive and is frankly relieved that his sufferings of conscience and social ostracism will finally end. He is Owen's third victim, his head crushed by a stone in as he sat alone on the shore. Thomas Rogers, the butler and Mrs. He and his weak- willed wife, whom he dominated, killed their former elderly employer by withholding her medicine, causing the elderly woman to die from heart failure, to inherit the money she had left them in her will. The fourth victim, he was killed with an axe while chopping wood.
She dismissed her maid, Beatrice Taylor, as punishment for becoming pregnant out of wedlock. Beatrice then throws herself into a river and drowned. Miss Brent feels no guilt but as the tension mounts she is haunted by the memory of the dead girl. She was Owen's fifth victim, killed by an injection of potassium cyanide into her neck as she sat alone at the dining table.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. Bookseller Image. Item Description: Pocket Books, New York, 1. Mass Market Paperback. Pocket Books #2. 61, 7th printing. Fair copy, creasing on the front and rear. Mass Market Paperback.
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This creepy nursery rhyme is an Epigraph that is like little appetizers to the great entr. It illuminates important aspects of the story and get us headed in the right direction. Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine. And then there were None.
This bestselling thriller of all time, a timeless tale of suspense in which ten strangers, each with a dark secret, are mysteriously invited to a mansion on an uninhabited island and killed off, one by one. By the end of the meal, one is dead. Haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one, the guests begin to die. But who among them is the killer .
Of this book Agatha Christie wrote 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 explanation; 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. Good neat condition text.
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All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Not Signed; Agatha Christie's world- famous mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.
N. Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony Marston is found murdered by a deadly dose of cyanide. The tension escalates as the survivors realise the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again. Not Signed; Description: The book that topped the international online poll held in Agatha Christie's 1.
Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U. N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime.
When one of the party dies suddenly they realise they may be harbouring a murderer among their number. The 1. 0 strangers include a reckless playboy, a troubled Harley Street doctor, a formidable judge, an uncouth detective, an unscrupulous mercenary, a God- fearing spinster, two restless servants, a highly decorated general and an anxious secretary. One by one they are picked off. And who is the killer? Copies of an ominous nursery rhyme hang in each room, the murders mimicking the awful fates of its 'Ten Little Soldier Boys'.
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And Then There Were None'. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U. N. Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony Marston is found murdered by a deadly dose of cyanide.
The tension escalates as the survivors realise the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again. Not Signed; This is a BBC Radio 4 full- cast dramatisation of a classic Agatha Christie mystery, starring Lyndsey Marshal, Geoffrey Whitehead and John Rowe. Ten guests travel to an island at the invitation of someone named U. N. All are strangers, but they have two things in common: they have all been responsible for someone's death, and none will leave the island alive.
Over the next two days and nights, each of the guests is killed off in a different manner in keeping with the nursery rhyme, 'Ten Little Soldier Boys'. As they are picked off one by one, who could possibly be responsible? The killers are forced to turn detective so they can find the unknown murderer, but one by one they become victims. Billed as 'the famous detective story without a detective', And Then There Were None is one of Agatha Christie's darkest and most enduring tales. Book Condition: Fair to Good.
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NOTES ON THE AUTHOR: Agatha Christie, 1. English detective story writer.
An extraordinarily popular author, Christie wrote over 8. Hercule Poirot, the egotistical Belgian, and Miss Jane Marple, the elderly spinster. BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF STORY: Ten people are invited to a lonely mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear- - ten people, each with something to hide, something to fear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of th eir own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die.
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