And Then There Were None: The World’s Favourite Agatha Christie Book

by Agatha Christie

The book that topped the international online poll held in Agatha Christie’s 125th birthday year to discover which of her 80 crime books was the world’s favourite.

1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. When one of the party dies suddenly they realise they may be harbouring a murderer among their number.

The 10 strangers include a reckless playboy, a troubled Harley Street doctor, a formidable judge, an uncouth detective, an unscrupulous mercenary, a God-fearing spinster, two restless servants, a highly decorated general and an anxious secretary. One by one they are picked off. Who will survive? And who is the killer? Copies of an ominous nursery rhyme hang in each room, the murders mimicking the awful fates of its ‘Ten Little Soldier Boys’.

The clear winner in an international online poll held to discover the world’s favourite Agatha Christie book, this new paperback also coincides with a new 3-part BBC TV adaptation featuring a stellar ensemble cast: Douglas Booth, Charles Dance, Maeve Dermody, Burn Gorman, Anna Maxwell Martin, Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Toby Stephens, Noah Taylor and Aidan Turner.

• ISBN13: 9780008123208
• Publish Date: 3 December 2015 (first published 1 January 1972)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Imprint: HarperCollins
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.co.uk

Reviews

Surprisingly good. I read the majority of this book in one day and I had no idea how it was all pulled off until the very end. Has definitely got me interested in reading more Agatha Christe.

[clairelm]

Wow! Dame Christie was a very very clever lady. I've always admired her books but I'd never read this one before and it was a thrilling mystery with twists and turns from start to finish. I didn't guess the identity of the murderer until the last few pages of the epilogue.

[inlibrisveritas]

Being my first Agatha Christie book, this definitely left me with a good impression of her writing. It kept me guessing the entire time, and in the end I was still wrong.

[angelarenea9]

I really loved this book and would recommend this to almost anyone. There were a lot of twists and everything fits together so well even if you don't see it until the end. It's a book worth reading for a second time.