And Then There Were None in Never too Late to Read Classics

Nov 13, 2017 Audrey rated it really liked it

Shelves: audiobooks, mystery-action-thriller, 2017-books, own-hard-copy

This premise is so awesome, so classic, it just can’t be repeated: Ten people are lured to an island house party under false pretenses. There, they’re each accused of crimes that vary from manslaughter at best and cold-blooded murder at worst. Then they start getting killed one by one.

Is there an unseen killer running loose on the island? Is it one (or more) of the guests? I’m not sure you’re meant to solve this on your own, unlike today’s mysteries. But the most interesting part of the story is ...more

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Apr 28, 2019 Josh Caporale rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" is arguably her most renowned book. It is a standalone mystery, not featuring Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, or Tommy and Tuppence, but instead a house of ten strangers that were invited to stay at a house with one another, detectives that played a minor supporting role, a boatman, and someone that invited the ten. I find that putting the attention on the ten houseguests shifted our attention and story as to whom it was that was committing the murders a ...more

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Nov 21, 2020 Ashley W rated it really liked it

Shelves: genre-mystery, 0stand-alone, author-christie, 201-300-pages

I'm not sure how I feel about the ending. It isn't that I mind that it was (view spoiler) as much as I don't like the way that it was delivered. I sort of wanted a bigger ending. Like him jumping out to Blore and Vera at the end and say aha! And I thought the nursery rhyme would have more significance than him just liking it as a child. But how did he know that Vera would (view spoiler)? The whole thing hindered on that. And her dr ...more

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Jan 07, 2019 Mike Snodgrass rated it really liked it

Great fun! My first murder mystery, let alone Agatha Christie. What a great place to start! I loved how easy and fun this was to read, yet hard to figure out. Her writing style, with short sentences, paragraphs, and chapters, but full of great dialogue and quick action, made this an exciting read. Next thing you know, the books is over, it's late at night, and you still don't know who did it. You can see why she was the most popular mystery writer of all time. ...more

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