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And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

Start date: July 1, 2023

Finish date: August 7, 2023

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Why we're reading this: This Christie classic is next in our Scenes of Classic Crime Challenge.
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* Oct 25: A Murder Is Announced (1950) by Agatha Christie
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Feb 23, 2014 Jan C rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: gr-group-read, mystery, re-read, 2015, 2022

This was at least my second reading, if not my third or fourth. And I've seen the movie innumerable times (especially since I have the dvd). And, yet, on every reading I wonder if I am misremembering. Agatha Christie has that effect on me. I always think, that can't be the way it was.

I am assuming that "white horses on the sea" is the same as "white caps". In every Christie book there is always some turn of phrase that leaves me momentarily puzzled.

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Feb 19, 2015 Teri-K rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-golden-age

This is probably one of the most acclaimed mysteries ever written. And it is excellent, in plotting and execution. Every time I read it I have to admire Christie. But I don't particularly care for this book. The characters aren't nice people to begin with, and the circumstances force them to become suspicious of each other as they are manipulated, one by one, to their deaths. I prefer my books to have some people I can like and admire.

Also, and this may be heresy, I don't get an actual feeling ...more

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Sep 27, 2016 Jessica rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, detective, book-to-film, golden-age-mystery

Ten strangers are summoned to a private island owned by an unknown millionaire. Before the weekend is out, one is killed after another until there were none. The author did a great job in maintaining the suspense and mystery throughout the book with her sharp imagination and well-constructed sentences. The plot was riveting and I found myself turning the pages. However, without giving out spoilers, I think there's a small discrepancy between narratives in the early portion of the book and at the ...more

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