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Kavitha Sivakumar
Jul 11, 2018 rated it it was amazing
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Simply wow!!!
Laura
Excelent series by BBC iPlayer.

From BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama:
Agatha Christie's famous detective story without a detective, adapted by Joy Wilkinson.

Ten guests are separately invited to an island by a person none of them knows very well, if at-all. When they arrive, it seems they have all been invited for different reasons. Nothing quite adds up.

An anonymous voice accuses each of them of having murdered someone. By the end of the first night, one of the guests is dead. Stranded by a violent s
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Pamela(AllHoney)
Ten people are invited/lured to Soldier's Island off the coast of Devon. One by one death strikes. Those remaining alive seek to discover who has marked them for death.

I am not sure why I have avoided Agatha Christie's work through the years but I chose to read one for a classics challenge and now I want more. I am one of those people who love my Happily-Ever-Afters so it surprises me that I loved this book so much. Normally, when stories contain too many "main" characters I will have problems k
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Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ...
There is something about Christie that doesn't work for me. This is the fourth or fifth book by her that I have read, and I always leave the book feeling a bit disappointed. I find the books a bit dull and unsurprising. They don't have the same charm as Conan Doyle's Holmes series. They aren't intricate or shocking like some modern mystery works. I am not certain what I am missing.

And Then There Were None introduces us to eight people who are invited to a weekend at an island house. None of them
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Barb
This was good and fun!
Brenda
Nov 26, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
I enjoyed this book. Very clever.
Paula S
Feb 10, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Classic Christie. I've read this a number of times, but I still enjoy following along as the story unfolds. I would hate to be stuck on that island though. ...more
Mary Paul
Dec 16, 2013 rated it really liked it
Very different than the usual techniques Ms Christie uses, but great. A classic Christie mystery (without the quirky village detectives!)
Navi
Feb 26, 2009 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Nov 24, 2016 rated it it was ok
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