And Then There Were None
And Then There Were NoneI recently read a mystery book by the name of "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie. I read this book
because I have read other books by Agatha Christie that were
pretty well written.
Ten people are invited to an island, called "Indian
Island", by letters that were signed by people they had met
before. When they got to the island, they found out that
their host, U.N.Owen, had not arrived yet. At dinner, they
heard a voice, accusing each of them of a murder, which they
were all guilty of. After one of them is killed, according
to the first verse of a poem that is framed above each of
their beds called "Ten Little Indians", they figure out that
the murderer is one of them! As more people are killed off,
one by one, the group narrows the suspect list down, until
only one is left alive but she figured that she would never
get off the islan anyway, and she hung herself from the
ceiling by putting a noose around her neck and kicking the
chair away on which she was standing, but she was not the
killer.
One of the mysteries to this book was, of course,
who killed all of the innocent people. Another mystery was
that every time another person was killed a little indian
figure would...
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