After supper, a phonograph record is played the recording accuses each visitor as well as the Rogers of having committed murder, then asks if any of the "prisoners at the bar" wishes to offer a defence. They are met by the butler and cook-housekeeper, Thomas and Ethel Rogers, who explain that their hosts, Ulick Norman Owen and Una Nancy Owen, have not yet arrived, though they have left instructions.Ī framed copy of the old rhyme " Ten Little Niggers" hangs in every guest's room, and on the dining room table sit ten figurines.
These details correspond to the text of the 1939 first edition.Įight people arrive on a small, isolated island off the Devon coast, each having received an unexpected personal invitation. 3.2 Correspondence between rhyme and modes of death.3.1 Current published version of the rhyme.The novel has been listed as the sixth best-selling title (any language, including reference works). The book is the world's best-selling mystery, and with over 100 million copies sold is one of the best-selling books of all time. UK editions continued to use the original title until the current definitive title appeared with a reprint of the 1963 Fontana Paperback in 1985. All successive American reprints and adaptations use that title, except for the Pocket Books paperbacks published between 19, which appeared under the title Ten Little Indians.
A US edition was released in January 1940 with the title And Then There Were None, which is taken from the last five words of the song. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers, after the children's counting rhyme and minstrel song, which serves as a major element of the plot. The absent host’s recorded voice then reveals why he’s gathered his baffled guests: to wreak grisly vengeance for the death each of them has caused! As predicted in the children’s rhyme “Ten Little Indians,” one by one, each of the victims meets a gruesome death at the hands of an unseen assailant.And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write.
Ten strangers are summoned to a remote African safari by a mysterious host and find themselves trapped and isolated in their hunting camp.
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