This was my “reading challenge” book for April. Eight people were invited to an island off the coast of Devon, where they were met by the supposed hosts’ butler and housekeeper. Then they all got murdered, in (extremely unlikely) ways which tied in with “Ten Little Soldier Boys” – the original title of the book having been changed in more recent editions. And it turned out that one of them had murdered the others, because he thought they’d all got away with crimes. Er, and that’s all I’ve got to say about that. Murder mysteries aren’t really my thing!
I loved this, but if you just don’t like murder mysteries Agatha Christie definitely isn’t for you!
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The original, first title was Ten Little N[racist slur against Africans], and then they changed it to Ten Little Indians (also not very politically correct), and finally it was changed to And Then There Were None, which isn’t racist at all. Plus they changed the poem in the story to soldiers with that last title change. You should read “The Invisible Host” by Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning, which many believe was Christie’s inspiration for this novel. Very quick read, and very good!
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I really enjoyed this one. Sorry to hear that you didn’t, though!
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