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The Westing Game , Shutter Island , or feeling completely paranoid while safe at home. Have you read And Then There Were None? Did you guess the killer? (Don't spoil it in the comments—just say yes or no!) Let me know below.

Instead, ten strangers are lured to a mysterious mansion on (originally "Nigger Island" in the original title, later changed for obvious cultural reasons). They are a mixed bag of British society: a reckless playboy, a repressed spinster, a rigid judge, a general haunted by war, a doctor with a drinking problem, and a mercenary adventurer. and then there were none by agatha christie

Upon arrival, a gramophone record accuses each guest of murder. Not the kind you go to jail for—the kind you got away with. A negligent doctor. A governess who looked the other way. A soldier who sent a man to his death out of jealousy. The Westing Game , Shutter Island , or

If you have seen the BBC miniseries or the classic 1945 film, you still haven't experienced the true genius of the book. The adaptations always change the ending because the original ending is too bleak for the screen. And Then There Were None is not just a great mystery. It is a perfect machine of suspense. Every clue matters. Every line of the nursery rhyme is a ticking clock. And by the time you reach the last page, you will understand why Agatha Christie—the woman who invented dozens of murders—said this was the hardest book she ever wrote. (Don't spoil it in the comments—just say yes or no

It is the best-selling crime novel of all time (over 100 million copies sold). It is the book that made the Queen of Crime terrified of her own plot. And it is arguably the only mystery in history where the ending leaves you just as unsettled as the murders themselves.

Here is why, nearly a century later, And Then There Were None remains the ultimate locked-room puzzle. Most Christie novels feature a brilliant detective—the meticulous Hercule Poirot or the nosy Miss Marple. And Then There Were None has neither.