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My understanding is that it was from the outset in the US in 1939 called "Ten Little Indians" and that it only became "And Then There Were None" relatively recently.

As mentioned elsewhere the original title, not the earliest American title as Agatha Christie's title was never used in the USA - although it was in Canada - was still in use in most English-speaking countries as recently as 1969.

@Ken You are mistaken. Even if I haven't seen a cover of the 1940 American edition with the title ATTWN, I read the book WITH THAT TITLE in junior high. Every time I went to a bookstore, I always saw ATTWN and rarely saw TLI.

I maintain your memory has been influenced by both the many films---almost all of which were entitled "Ten Little Indians"---as well as the play. The first film adaptation of this was entitled ATTWN, and it was only until recently that they went back to this title.

I'll drop this argument if you still think I'm wrong, but if that is the case I suggest you Google "Sinbad genie movie".

It is not the original title though. It was censored from the start in the USA.

US editions always had the title ATTWN. It was first published in England and started as TLN. I have an edition printed in 1976 with that title. Sometime in the 1980s the UK title changed to TLI and in the 1990s changed to And Then There Were None.

The cover of the 1976 edition is horrific https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9... It was my Grandmother's. I love her, but she was as rascist as Agatha Christie and her publishers.

Yeah, that 1976 cover goes even further than the text itself!

And the one with the black person inside an enormous noose is awful too!