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And Then There Were None

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First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a 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 is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal--and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One b

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Mass Market Paperback, 275 pages

Published May 13th 2001 by St. Martin's Paperbacks (first published 1939)

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Oct 31, 2012 Nataliya rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: i-also-saw-the-film, 2012-reads

This lovely mystery book is first and foremost about the administration of the long-overdue justice, right? At least that's what the mastermind behind it all believes.

But the question is - who has the right to decide what justice is? And who is to decide what punishment serves the crime? And is perceived justice at all costs the ultimate goal, or is it the frequently pointless work of a maniac? As a matter of fact, what is justice after all?

I think the story of this book (the one that may win th ...more
This lovely mystery book is first and foremost about the administration of the long-overdue justice, right? At least that's what the mastermind behind it all believes.

But the question is - who has the right to decide what justice is? And who is to decide what punishment serves the crime? And is perceived justice at all costs the ultimate goal, or is it the frequently pointless work of a maniac? As a matter of fact, what is justice after all?

I think the story of this book (the one that may win the contest for the most offensive original title, after all) is familiar to most readers. It is a lovely and fascinating idea. Ten people are lured onto a remote island under false pretenses just to realize that they are all about to be punished by death for the 'crimes' that they have committed in the past and have gotten away with. Killed in a manner predicted by a silly yet ominous children's poem with the conclusion of "... and then there were none". What's more, they come to realize that the mastermind - or maniac? - has to be among them. And the (very polite, in the traditional British way) game of survival begins, complete with all the necessary societal rituals¹ and classism² that are not disposed of even under the threat of imminent demise.

¹The politeness and overt show of respect to one another even in the face of imminent murder by someone in their midst - because, of course, you would not want to offend anyone. Continuing to socialize and take meals together. Insisting on chivalry when a woman could be the murderer just as well as a man ((view spoiler)) - these are just some of the examples.

² Just think of everyone expecting the impeccable service by the butler even though HIS WIFE JUST DIED! Everyone deciding to stick together and be careful - but never including the servants in it. The belief by some that people of 'proper class' would be incapable of murder ((view spoiler)). The list can go on and on. And all of these assumptions prove to be wrong.

And as, despite the precautions, the number of people trapped on the island continues to decline, the uneasy tension sets in, and the impeccable facades begin to crack.

"The others went upstairs, a slow unwilling procession. If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feeling. But this house was the essence of modernity. There were no dark corners - no possible sliding panels - it was flooded with electric light - everything was new and bright and shining. There was nothing hidden in this house, nothing concealed. It had no atmosphere about it. Somehow, that was the most frightening thing of all. They exchanged good-nights on the upper landing. Each of them went into his or her own room, and each of them automatically, almost without conscious thought, locked the door."

The story is captivating and very smart, and the ending had me baffled for a bit the first time I read it. It has a neat resolution despite an obvious plot hole (view spoiler). It's an enjoyable read to say the least.

But what made me unsettled both of the times I read it was the nagging question of justice, as I mentioned above. Yes, on one hand, it's almost poetic justice to punish the criminals who thought they got away with it. On the other hand, is eye-for-an-eye the best way to get even? And who's to judge, anyway? Who is either conceited enough or deranged enough to assume that he has the right and the moral authority to determine guilt and the extent of punishment just like that?

Don't get me wrong - the people accused on the island are undeniably guilty (even though it's not necessarily murder as we think of for some of them - Vera Claythorne is really guilty of neglect, albeit with a desire to kill, and Emily Brent is pretty much guilty of being a judgmental über-righteous heartless prude). But the degree of their guilt varies quite significantly in my perception, and it does not always coincide with what their 'unknown' judge/executioner thinks (running two children over with a car and feeling no remorse is to me worse than firing a pregnant servant who then goes on to kill herself, for instance). And is arbitrarily and single-handedly determining their guilt and doling out punishments not just as much (or even much worse) or a crime than they have committed? Conceited, self-righteous crime? Decide for yourself.

Speaking of guilt - this novel has quite a bit to say on this subject. You see, many of the characters have already been judged and condemned by their own selves. Vera Claythorne and General Macarthur both are tormented by their guilt (and (view spoiler)). Interestingly, others, no less guilty, are not tormented by their conscience at all. But ultimately this does not matter at all for their survival; only the fact that they were deemed guilty ((view spoiler)). So should being tormented by guilt versus a cold-blooded killer factor at all in the administration of justice?

These are the thoughts that kept running through my head as I was reading this excellent non-traditional critically-acclaimed specimen of mystery literature. And therefore bravo to Miss Christie for making me think and care - and not just mindlessly flipping pages to get to the bottom of the whodunit. Because 'WHO' was much less important to me than 'HOW' and 'WHY' - especially 'WHY'.

For all of this, I give it the unflinching guilt-free 4 stars.(less)

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Jun 02, 2011 mark monday rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: choose-ur-adventure, rain-man-reviews

You Chose Your Own Adventure!

You are a man, you are a woman; you are judge, jury, and executioner. You are surrounded by murderers and assholes. Kill ‘em all! Then kill yourself. Your adventure is over.

If you would like to start your life anew, choose
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May 08, 2013 Jon added it

Shelves: mystery, fiction, read-in-my-40s, loved-it

4 stars

Due to the acquisition of GoodReads by Amazon on March 28, 2013 and my existing and continuing boycott of all things Amazon, the review I wrote after reading this book now resides, safe and secure, at my blog. You can read it by following this link: http://bit.ly/18uW8uY

Definitely a must read for any mystery aficionado.

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Nov 17, 2011 Halfino rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: mystery lovers

Shelves: mystery

I read it many years ago, during my junior high (or before?), loved it, and consider it as one of Christie's best writing.

You won't find Poirot or Miss Marple in it, but as her other books are usually related to some popular rhymes, this one is related with '10 Little Indians' (which is the other title for this book).

Alternately, you will have these ten people with the dark past isolated in an island. One by one, each of them were killed. You may guess who the killer was while turning page over...more

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Sep 18, 2012 Kinga rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Before I begin I would like to apologise for my use of the N word in this review.
It is necessary, I promise.

This book was originally published in UK under a charming title of "Ten Little Niggers". When it came to the US version in the 40's someone decided that 'Ten Little Niggers' is not the most marketable title for a book so they changed it to 'Ten Little Indians' (as it was still ok to call Native Americans Indians then).
Only years after someone decided that neither 'Niggers', nor 'Indians'...more

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May 14, 2010 Moira Russell added it

Shelves: 2010-50-new-books-challenge, favourites

I admit I am a late, reluctant and suspicious convert to Christie. I avoided her studiously as an adolescent, because dozens and dozens of her paperbacks were always on sale with equally cheap indistinguishable romances and other 'women's books,' and I wanted no part of those. I read Chandler, not Christie; Hammett, not Sayers; James, not Marsh. I even read a few Spillane books, for Chrissakes, at a friend's urging (UGH), but still no Christie. Those endless TV adaptations, with the dotty Miss M...more I admit I am a late, reluctant and suspicious convert to Christie. I avoided her studiously as an adolescent, because dozens and dozens of her paperbacks were always on sale with equally cheap indistinguishable romances and other 'women's books,' and I wanted no part of those. I read Chandler, not Christie; Hammett, not Sayers; James, not Marsh. I even read a few Spillane books, for Chrissakes, at a friend's urging (UGH), but still no Christie. Those endless TV adaptations, with the dotty Miss Marple and dorky Poirot, didn't help either. I had her books written off - predictable - cozy - tricksy - unreal - feminine. I liked Patricia Cornwell and noir. Show me a grisly procedural and I'll sink into it like a warm bath.

The result of this prejudice, of course, was that I never saw what was actually there and only cheated myself. But matters weren't helped when I took a (delightful) genre studies course in graduate school (The Singing Sands, Ashenden, Knight's Gambit, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, Poe, Doyle....) and we had to read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, about whom legendary snob Edmund Wilson famously asked: Who Cares? Not me. (Not that I cared for Wilson either.) I hated that book.

But during that course I ran across something interesting. For my final topic I chose the work of P.D. James (and read all of her books published up til then - through Original Sin - in about a month; dizzying but v fun) and you couldn't miss emblazoned on all her paperbacks at the time, THE NEW QUEEN OF CRIME, SHE USURPS CHRISTIE'S THRONE, CAGEMATCH BETWEEN PHYLLIS AND AGATHA, TWO BITCHES ENTER ONE NOVELIST LEAVES, &c &c you get the picture. This was mainly very stupid marketing because James and Christie have almost nothing in common (even tho James's first, derivative novel had the classic locked-room scenario). But I read a lot of interviews with James, and while she was polite about Christie (well, she's British) I sensed something else: respect. Apparently her tone's changed a bit in her most recent nonfiction book about mysteries, but then she said something like: 'She is a conjurer with those cards, and each time you think you know which one she is turning face-up, and each time you are wrong.'

Well, now that was interesting. Every time? And I discovered the answer is, yes, pretty much. Call it a trick, call it a gimmick, call it masterful puzzle-plotting, call it a kind of genius, whatever it is, it's frighteningly consistent. It is what Stephen King terms the 'gotta' in Misery raised almost to an art form. It is what Magnus Eisengrim describes in Robertson Davies' World of Wonders as what makes a great magician: 'A man who can stand stark naked in the middle of a crowd and keep it gaping for an hour while he manipulates a few coins, or cards, or billiard balls.'

This would have been a far, far better book for me to read in that class that was almost fifteen years ago now (gosh). For one thing, it has a sharp, strong, original female central character (she's not quite a heroine); its gimmick is equally as good as Ackroyd's; and it is a dazzling distinctive example of the One-Of-Us-is-a-Murderer-But-Which-One plot. Even better, there is no trace of that horrific Socratic bore Hercule Poirot or any of his little grey cells. For all that critics harp on Christie's cardboard characters and outlandish setups, this book depends largely on characterization and atmosphere. Each of the ten people brought to a deserted, barren island is guilty to a greater or lesser degree of causing the death of another person, and the book becomes almost a meditation on - what is guilt? What is responsibility? The murderer isn't just randomly cutting people down, but manipulating them, and enjoying it. Even if they are all as guilty as she or he thinks they are, do they deserve to be picked off and psychologically tortured? What justifies passing sentence on someone else? These are not easy questions and Christie does not give easy answers.

(Also trying to write a spoiler-free review of this is hard, yeesh.)(less)

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I am gratified to learn that you do not intend to speak in everybody's name, message 54.

Well, I certainly reprimand you now for implying that I am such a dullard as not to realise that Christie (usually) refers to Agatha Christie! The suggestion that I might think "Christie" referred to John Crhistie was mainly tongue in cheek, although the practise of referring to people by their surnames or first names alone can lead to confusion. ("When you say Dylan, he thinks you are talking about Dylan Thomas, whoever he was. The man aint got no culture.") I have had to double check in the past to find out if a reference to "Lawrence's writing" was to DH Lawrence or TE Lawrence. To repeat: I find the use of Agatha Christie's last name without the first name curt and lazy and I suppose that I am allowed to express that view (one has to be careful about what views it is permissable to express in tolerant liberal Britain these days). It jars. For some people it does not jar. Although the point appears at first glance trivial, there are opposed views of the world revealed here and a person who vigorously espouses one view or the other is unlikely to wish to seek out the company of the other if it can be avoided.
If we (by "we" I mean those commenting in this thread) continue discussing this we are all likely to repeat ourselves, so I suggest letting it rest at that, with neither "side" if sides is what we are, claiming the last word.(less)
Dec 23, 2011 10:05am

Oct 27, 2012 Emily May rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller-horror

I'm a big lover of Agatha Christie, she has written some fantastic murder mysteries and her stories never get tiring. But this is the one that just comes out on top every time.

It partly, and quite amusingly, reminds me of that old American murder mystery in Sunset Beach. Basically, they're the only ones on this island and someone is killing them off one by one in accordance with the Ten Little Indians rhyme . And I swear I never saw it coming, and I'm usually very good at it. It's just a very cl...more

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Mar 11, 2011 Rehab suliman rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

لم يخطئ النقاد حين صنفوا هذه الرائعة من أكثر روايات أجاثا دقة وادهاشاً .. انهمكت في قراءتها وأنهيتها رغماً عني سريعا للفضول الشديد الذي ألم بي لمعرفة النهاية الغير متوقعه أبداً .. يدهشني في اجاثا دقتها في وصف المشاهد لدرجة أني أتخيل نفسي في موقع الحدث .. ان أردت أن تجرب قراءة الروايات البوليسية فهذه الرواية هي الأجدر بأن تكون البداية لك

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Dec 17, 2012 Pedro António rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012-read, mystery

It's been a long time since I last felt like taking notes and rereading parts of the book before finishing it.

And Then There Were None is just so captivating that I truly made an effort to find out who the killer was before I was done - and I still got it wrong. It's definitely possible, albeit improbable, to solve the mystery before the book's conclusion and I was surely not disappointed with the outcome.

Even though you're introduced to all the characters in very short order, I felt like it wa...more

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Apr 23, 2013 Erika rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-and-thriller, adult, ebook, solo-books-read, watched-movie

ETA (04/23/13): After reading some other mysteries, I feel like there weren't really any clues to solve the mystery in this book, and I'm not talking exactly about the who, but about the how. That's cheating. It's not a super great mystery well done that fools everybody. So, I'm gonna leave my rating at 2.5 stars.

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This was a thrilling book, entertaining enough to keep me reading from beginning to end in one day, even when I was at work!! And it kept me guessing all the way through.

The plo...more

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Jun 02, 2008 Jason rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Mystery fans, aspiring screenwriters, everyone

I first read Christie a few weeks ago when I completed “Murder on the Orient Express”. It blew me away, and I knew I would have to read more. “And Then There Were None” was a logical choice since it is so famous. My local library had a copy available for me.
I do not think I have ever read through a book that quickly. It was very short, but very exciting! Agatha Christie does not disappoint in presenting not only a mystery that I did not figure out until the truth was told to me, but an engagin...more I first read Christie a few weeks ago when I completed “Murder on the Orient Express”. It blew me away, and I knew I would have to read more. “And Then There Were None” was a logical choice since it is so famous. My local library had a copy available for me.
I do not think I have ever read through a book that quickly. It was very short, but very exciting! Agatha Christie does not disappoint in presenting not only a mystery that I did not figure out until the truth was told to me, but an engaging thriller.
It is the characters that make the story so amazing. With hardly any time spent on them in such a short book, all ten of the main characters came across as real and vibrant. After only a few pages I felt that I understood who they were, and what they wanted. Furthermore, I felt sorry for several of the characters even though they were, really, villains.
Otherwise there is little to say for the story because it was so short. I suppose it suffices to say that it was one of the best short books I’ve ever read, and I am sure I will be reading it again.

4 Characters
The characters are living and vibrant. They feel like unique individuals rather than cardboard cutouts. Furthermore, Christie was able to get me to care for the characters, and relate to them, even though they were all murderers in one way or another.

5 Pace
No part of this book was boring or slow. As soon as the first page is read, a person finds themselves forced to continue. No time is wasted. The characters are introduced, put on the island, and then they start dying. The pace quickens as the murders continue… and I found myself missing work to continue reading.

4 Story
The plot behind the story feels slightly thin- that a madman would lure nine people to an island to give them justice society could not, but it serves the concept and it works.

4 Dialogue
The dialogue between characters is well written. I never questioned who was speaking at a given moment, though I did frequently wonder just who was thinking.

3 Style/Technical
I wonder if the style is indicative of the times. There are many paragraph breaks that I would call needless, and she prefaces dialogue with a single, short paragraph identifying who was doing the speaking. It was never difficult and always clear, but did read strangely as a result. Her later works are not like that.

4 Overall
This is a good book. I can understand why elements of it have been adapted to broadly for other books, comics, movies, and video games. I will be reading it again, if only to tap into the strange sense of unknown terror that it provides…(less)

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Apr 17, 2007 Heather rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: mystery buffs

A group of strangers is invited to a deserted island by a mysterious host they do not know. When they arrive they immediately
1. dislike each other
2. figure out that no one knows who the host is
3. discern that each person is hiding a dark secret
4. realize they were all blackmailed into coming
Then one by one, the guests begin to disappear. A short verse about 10 Little Indians appears at each crime scene. Those remaining frantically try to figure out what is going on.

This is my all-time favorite...more

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Aug 01, 2010 Colleen Venable rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: re-read, 2009-read, fiction-adult, 2010-read

Made the mistake of starting this on the train ride home just now. Now it's 2am and HOLY MOLY DOES THIS BOOK HOLD UP! Was my favorite book in 5th grade and read it a ton of times then. I even know who the killer is and I'm still at the edge of my seat (or maybe more appropriately edge of my bed, under the covers with a booklight) Lordie. Someone pry this out of my hands and make me sleep!

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Aug 25, 2012 Yasmin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Ten people have been invited under different reasons, which eventually will unite them so well... the invitation gathered them in this enchanting place to spend some summer time... to get them out of the world... so they meet what was prepared for them to meet.

Simple story, huh?
No doubt that .. because that's where the genius lies in Agatha Christie novels, in its simpleness. And that is exactly the cause of confusion. I think I'm being confusing myself but you'll get it when you read this novel...more

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Dec 24, 2012 Anne Toronto1 rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: suspense

Vague invitations from U.N. Owen (aka unknown) are individually tailored to the recipients. Victims are stranded on an isolated island. Accused of murder by a phonograph recording on their first night, each dies within a week, method according to nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians" ("Niggers" alternate title).

Counting down each death, one corresponding glass miniature vanishes from the table center decoration. Tricksy plot allows perpetrator to differ in world's longest running popular stage (Th...more Vague invitations from U.N. Owen (aka unknown) are individually tailored to the recipients. Victims are stranded on an isolated island. Accused of murder by a phonograph recording on their first night, each dies within a week, method according to nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians" ("Niggers" alternate title).

Counting down each death, one corresponding glass miniature vanishes from the table center decoration. Tricksy plot allows perpetrator to differ in world's longest running popular stage (The Mousetrap) or screen versions.

Early on, having us see the invitation as credible in the eyes of the actual criminal, is a sneaky cheat by the author. Of course we mistakenly believe every point of view as innocent. Too much is made of everyone's overwhelming guilt, especially that of the final survivor. In all a fairly artificial construct with the dice loaded against readers' correct solution.

A hint, not a spoiler: the killer may not be the last one. Or may? Suicide? Murder? Fake? "The Queen of Crime" strikes again. (view spoiler)(less)

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Dec 20, 2010 Buthy-ful rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: all-time-favorites, a-must-read

ربما لم أقرأ لأحد كما قرأت لأجاثا كريستي وليس لأنها تكتب في الغموض والقصص البوليسية، ولكن لأنها تضيف دائماً البعد الإنساني لشخصياتها، وتضمن الصفحات آراءها في العدل والسياسة والحب والصراع بين الخير والشر..

هذه الرواية هي واحدة من أكثر من ثمانين كتبتها في الأدب البوليسي، وهي في رأيي مثل الدرة على التاج، فشخصياتها مصقولة وواضحة، وأحداثها متسلسلة. والتسلسل الزمني في الرواية حين تأخذنا الشخصيات في بحر الذكريات، يجعل القراءة مليئة بالإثارة.

أنصح بقراءتها لمحبي قصص الغموض

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Aug 07, 2007 Jennie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: required-work-reading

Ten people, randomly selected, trapped on an island off the English coast, all accussed of a murder. A murder they were involved in, but didn't have evidence, a murder they could never be convicted off...

In every room, a nursery rhyme, Ten Little Indians, that details how each of hte ten will fall...

They're the only ones on the island. One of them won't be killed. One of them is doing the killing, but which one?

This Agatha Christie classic helped define a genre. She gets into their heads as they...more

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Jun 01, 2011 Eman rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

طبعا ما فيش حد يقدر يقول حاجة على أجاثا كريستي

حبيبتي الكاتبة الراقية المتميزة

كانت رواية رهيبة قرأتها بالليل وكنت خائفة

والتوتر تصاعد وكاد قلبي ان يقف لمعرفة القاتل

كانت لها ايقاع جميل هذه الرواية

وانصح الجميع للقراءة لاجاثا كريستي

هذه الرواية أخرجت كفيلم بعنوان

And then there where noun

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Dec 02, 2012 David Green rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, favorite-books-or-series

It's been a long time since I read this book...I was in my pre-teen years at the time! Because of that, I really can't give too detailed a review, but I can honestly say that this was the novel that ignited my life-long love for mysteries! Sure, as a kid, I had already been exposed to mysteries aimed at my age group...the Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, Scooby Doo (OK, that last one doesn't really count), but "And Then There Were None" was the first sophisticated mystery I ever read, and its eff...more

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Feb 01, 2013 Ash rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: own, suspense-thriller, favorites, _agatha-christie, movie, 1000guardian, 2011-read

UPDATED:

I just couldnt guess the killer. Having watched Gumnaam which was based on this book, I was wondering if I would be able to guess. But the story is pretty much different. Loved it!

Watched the 1940s movie that goes by the same name. It was good but the ending was different from that in the book. Movie has a happy ending, but I liked the one in the book more.

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Feb 26, 2009 Manny rated it 4 of 5 stars

My friend Amelie and I used this book as half of our corpus when we wrote our 1990 paper, An Implementable Semantics for Comparative Constructions . We spent several days combing through the text, extracting and categorizing every single occurrence of a comparative construction. So you'll appreciate that I know what I'm talking about when I say it's better than most murder mysteries.

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Dec 06, 2012 Tami Lynn Andrew rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I decided to read this because I am personally obsessed with claustrocore (a term I coined to describe movies where a person or persons are trapped in a certain space for the whole of the film with a threat of some kind on their lives.. talk to me about this independently of this review if you want to discuss). It is important to note that I had never read Agatha Christie before, and though I knew the plot of this book (having been redone countless times throughout media) I knew little else abou...more

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Dec 10, 2010 Chelsea rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Chelsea by: Donovan Smithson :p

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.

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May 02, 2012 Dyuti rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime-thriller-mystery, ebook

What makes a good mystery novel?

The author's skill and reputation in that genre? The setting? The crime? The ways of untangling the knot? Or is it simply surprising the reader with a twist in the tail, which will take her breath away at the sheer brilliance of the planning?

Even though the other factors matter in varying degrees of importance, I would personally lay the greatest weight on the last clause!

And that is what this book lacked.

But before that, let me say what i liked about the book.

1....more

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Mar 02, 2013 Theodora rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: fans of misteries

I hadn't read a book that fast in a while.I literally couldn't put it down,eager to know who the killer is.I had some theories and I'm glad one of them turned out to be right:(view spoiler).However,the book was in no way predictable,it was really fast-paced and intense.I'm definitely going to be reading more by Agatha Cristie,that woman knew how to make up a good story.One of the things I found really interesting and original is that the killer...more

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Oct 07, 2011 Eng.Khalid Ib rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: بوليسية, favorites

من أفضل رواياتها...بالإضافة لروايتها
جريمة في قطار الشرق.

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Aug 23, 2011 Dina Nabil rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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القصه دى و "قطار الشرق السريع" اروع قصص اجاثا على الاطلاق

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Feb 11, 2009 Stephanie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Also published as Ten Little Indians, my first experience with an Agatha Christie novel was incredible. I didn't know what to expect when I started this book, and I only added it to our bookshelf because I saw on the Internet that many consider this book to be the greatest mystery ever written. (Yes, I had to conduct research to find mysteries to contribute - I just don't read much in that genre.)

Anyway, the story is about ten people who are beckoned to a mysterious island through letters from...more

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Feb 22, 2013 Zannatul Orin rated it 5 of 5 stars

Agatha Christie is an incredible author. "And then there were none" is a enthralling novel and since this is a murder mystery, It caught my attention and I kept reading and reading....
I recommend this novel to everyone who has not read it.
Here are the description about the characters in this book:
Vera Claythorne: She used to be the nanny for an upper-class family, but her charge died in a drowning accident under her care.
Phillip Lombard: A former Army man, he's sent to the Island by an inte...more

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Jun 05, 2012 Titty rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Lately I have been reading mostly classics and this felt like a breath of fresh air.It was different from Agatha Christie's other works but I loved it.
At first, before reading the book itself, what actually caught my attention, when I was reading a summary, was the plot - and to be more specific - the fact that 10 people are trapped in a mansion not knowing who has invited them and they're getting killed, one by one, as each death follows the lyrics of a nursery rhyme (which I loved).So I knew w...more

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Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880...more

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“Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Nine little Indian boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight.
Eight little Indian boys travelling in Devon; One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.
Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.
Six little Indian boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.
Five little Indian boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four.
Four little Indian boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.
Three little Indian boys walking in the Zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
Two little Indian boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.” — 127 people liked it

“The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them....” — 56 people liked it

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