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And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

Start date: August 1, 2016

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Feb 25, 2022 Catsalive rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2011, 2024

While it didn't have quite the impact of the first reading when I had no idea who the antagonist was, I still enjoyed this clever Christie mystery. The story is oft copied these days but none of them seem to manage to do it with such deft directness. The character sketches are just that, brief & to the point, telling everything you need to know about these ten people in a few brief lines. The locale is covered in a similar fashion, & there aren't reams of padding setting the scene: we're barely ...more

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Jul 30, 2014 Trisha rated it really liked it

Agatha Christie is just such a fun writer and talented story-teller. I've never read one of her stories and not loved it.

I've seen a few versions of this movie made with Hercule Poirot. But I must admit, the book was even better than every show or movie I've seen.

It brings the world much more alive, the island and the murders with so much more mystery. This is probably my favorite of the Agatha Christie story and as always, I love Hercule Poirot but Miss Marple is wonderful too! :) ...more

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Jun 08, 2014 Michael rated it really liked it

Shelves: summer-reading-2014, audio-book, read-in-2014, mystery

Now that I've been out of school for more years than I care to count, I'm always intrigued to see what my local school system has put in the recommended summer reading list. Seeing that a couple of Agatha Christie novels have made their way into the ranks of recommended literature felt like as good an excuse as any to revisit what many consider to be the "queen of mysteries."

Which leads me to And Then There Were None, one of the iconic locked-room murder mysteries ever published. And while there ...more

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