And Then There Were None (agatha Christie Mysteries Collection) [Paperback]

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie!  More than 100 million copies sold and now a Lifetime TV movie.

Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die…

 

Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?

One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie.

Ten . . .
Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious U. N. Owen.

Nine . . .
At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead.

Eight . . .
Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one . . . as one by one . . . they begin to die.

Seven . . .
Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?

The whole thing is utterly impossible and utterly fascinating. It is the most baffling mystery Agatha Christie has ever written.One of the most ingenious thrillers in many a day.One of the very best, most genuinely bewildering Christies.There is no cheating; the reader is just bamboozled in a straightforward way from first to last&.The most colossal achievement of a colossal career. The book must rank with Mrs. Christies previous beston the top notch of detection.The most astonishingly impudent, ingenious and altogether successful mystery story since The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.What Agatha Christie taught mlƒ1