Had you ever read this book? If yes, What ur opinion?
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE - AGATHA CHRISTIE
That's my favorite book from her.
The story is very nice, smart, and full of mystery. This is brilliant book!
And Then There Were None is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie. In the novel, ten people, who have previously been complicit in the deaths of others but have escaped notice or punishment, are tricked into coming onto an island. Even though the guests are the only people on the island, they are all mysteriously murdered one by one, in a manner paralleling, inexorably and sometimes grotesquely, the old nursery rhyme, "Ten Little Niggers".Interestingly it turns out those people who were invited did not know each other.
Justice Wargrave, Vera Claythorne, Philip Lombard, General Macarthur, Emily Brent, Anthony Marston, Doctor Armstrong, Thomas Rogers and William Blore have been invited to a mansion on the fictional Soldier Island by Mr. U.N. Owen (Ulick Norman Owen and Una Nancy Owen).
Before dinner that evening, the guests notice ten soldier boy figurines on the dining room table. During their meal, a gramophone record plays, accusing each of the ten of murder. The guests now realize they have been tricked into coming to the island, but find that they cannot leave and they are murdered one by one, each death paralleling a verse of the nursery rhyme, with one of the figurines being removed after each murder.
First to die is the spoiled Anthony Marston, whose drink is poisoned.That night, Thomas Rogers notices that a figurine is missing from the dining table. Mrs. Rogers dies in her sleep that night, which Dr. Armstrong attributes to a fatal overdose of sleeping draught. Macarthur fatalistically predicts that no one will leave the island alive, and at lunch, is indeed found dead from a blow to the back of his skull. And two more figurines have disappeared from the dining room. The next morning, Rogers is missing, as is another figurine. He is found dead in the woodshed, struck in the back of the head with an axe. Later that day, Emily Brent is killed in the kitchen by an injection of potassium cyanide that leaves a mark on her neck.
The five survivors — Dr. Armstrong, Justice Wargrave, Philip Lombard, Vera Claythorne, and William Blore — become increasingly frightened and almost frantic. Resolved to keep the killer from catching anyone alone, they gather in the drawing room and only leave one at a time.Vera goes to her room and found a piece of seaweed and she was screaming. Her screams attracted the attention of Blore, Lombard, and Armstrong, who rushed to help him. When they returned to the living room, they found a mockery Wargrave in judicial wig and a dress with a gunshot wound in his forehead.
That night, Blore hears someone sneaking out of the house He and Armstrong Lombard investigate and find missing and thought he was the killer. Vera and Lombard soon discover blore's body on the terrace, skull crushed by a bear-shaped clock and on the shore, Armstrong, drowned. Vera helped Lombard to pull out Armstrong of the water. However, Vera shot lombard and she back home. When she returned to her room, vera surprised to find a rope that was prepared in his room. She closes himself and meet the end of the rhyme.
"Ten Little Soldiers Rhythm"
Ten little Soldier boys went out to dine;
One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Nine little Soldier boys sat up very late;
One overslept himself and then there were eight.
Eight little Soldier boys traveling in Devon;
One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.
Seven little Soldier boys chopping up sticks;
One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.
Six little Soldier boys playing with a hive;
A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.
Five little Soldier boys going in for law;
One got in Chancery and then there were four.
Four little Soldier boys going out to sea;
A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.
Three little Soldier boys walking in the zoo;
A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
Two Little Soldier boys sitting in the sun;
One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little Soldier boy left all alone;
He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
So.. who the mastermind of this murder? Can you guess it?
