Second Review ~ And Then There Were None

Hey everyone! (That seems to be my catchphrase now, huh?!) This next book is by a world-famous author, Agatha Christie. She wrote many best-selling mystery books, such as Murder on the Orient Express. But that is not the book I am focusing on right now. This book is just as famous, and the name is And Then There Were None. This book was published in 1940. Anyway, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK AT NIGHT IF YOU ARE FAINT OF HEART! (Like me!) I read it at night once and it gave me nightmares for a week!




Anyway, the story is about ten men and women who get an invitation from a Mr. U.N. Owen, inviting them to visit on his island, called Indian Island. They get to the island, when they realize that their host and hostess are not there. However, when they arrive, they hear a record play and the record states each person's name and their "crime". Everyone is worried, especially when later that night, one of their number is murdered!


Oddly enough, in each room, there is a nursery rhyme, which the killer seems to be following. For example:

Ten little Indian boys went out to dine;

One choked his little self and then there were nine.

Nine little Indian boys stayed up very late;

One overslept himself and then there were eight.

The very night that everyone had arrived on the island, someone (or something) slipped potassium cyanide into one man's drink, causing instantaneous death. But who could have done it? The man was not the kind to commit suicide, and he had taken his own glass. None of the other glasses were touched. WHAT could have happened? Later that same night, another death occurs, and the mystery mounts!


At the end of the book, almost everyone on the island is dead, and the few remaining people suspect each other.

This novel is not good for the faint-of-heart, like me. It took a lot to read it, but it is relatively short. Lots of twists and turns makes this mystery chiller great reading for at a scary Halloween party!
~PS~ Do you like the picture? My copy of the book was so old that I couldn't find a picture, so I made my own, in Paint!