And Then There Were None

The World's Favourite Agatha Christie Book

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Pubblicato il 01 Gennaio 1944 da imusti, Harper Collins Paperbacks.

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978-0-00-812320-8
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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. This is not the original title that it was published under and has since been changed for its use of a derogatory slur, though it retains the same meaning as it uses the final line of the poem for which it was originally named rather than either of its known titles.

There were ten people—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common are their wicked pasts they're unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal their fate. Each has been marked for murder, following the plot of a famous nursery …

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It's been a long time since I last read this book, and I remembered liking it. I don't think I caught all the ways in which the movie Clue either references it or uses it as a guide for their detective spoof before, and that was partially the reason for why I wanted to read it again.

I still very much like the idea that the point of the book is to target those who cannot be touched by the law or who haven't done something that can be considered "criminal." It really feels, particularly in an age where so many people in specific positions view themselves as untouchable because they're either "not doing something illegal" or the law refuses to do anything about them, like a concept we should be revisiting in our narrative fiction.

This novel is enough to bring me back to detective works, something which I've …

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