And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection) (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection (Paperback))

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspensecreator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable charactersbrings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacksincluding And Then There Were None , the worlds bestselling mystery, in which ten strangers, each with a dark secret, are lured to a mansion on an uninhabited island and killed off one by one. Amazon.com Review Considered the best mystery novel ever written by many readers, And Then There Were None is the story of 10 strangers, each lured to Indian Island by a mysterious host. Once his guests have arrived, the host accuses each person of murder. Unable to leave the island, the guests begin to share their darkest secrets--until they begin to die. Review The whole thing is utterly impossible and utterly fascinating. It is the most baffling mystery Agatha Christie has ever written. (New York Times ) One of the most ingenious thrillers in many a day. (Time magazine ) One of the very best, most genuinely bewildering Christies. (The Observer (UK) ) There is no cheating; the reader is just bamboozled in a straightforward way from first to last.The most colossal achievement of a colossal career. The book must rank with Mrs. Christies previous beston the top notch of detection. (New Statesman (UK) ) The most astonishingly impudent, ingenious and altogether successful mystery story since The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. (Daily Herald (UK) ) What Agatha Christie taught me was all about the delicate placement of the red herring. She was the ultimate genius behind by indirections shall we find directions out. (Elizabeth George, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Lynley novels ) And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers, after the children's counting rhyme and minstrel song, which serves as a major element of the plot. A US edition was released in January 1940 with the title And Then There Were None, which is taken from the last five words of the song. All successive American reprints and adaptations use that title, except for the Pocket Books paperbacks published between 1964 and 1986, which appeared under the title Ten Little Indians. UK editions continued to use the original title until the current definitive title appeared with a reprint of the 1963 Fontana Paperback in 1985. In 1990 Crime Writers' Association ranked And Then There Were None 19th in their The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list. In 1995 in a similar list Mystery Writers of America ranked the novel 10th. In September 2015, to mark her 125th birthday, And Then There Were None was named the "World's Favourite Christie" in a vote sponsored by the author's estate. In the "Binge!" article of Entertainment Weekly Issue #1343-44 (26 December 2014–3 January 2015), the writers picked And Then There Were None as an "EW favorite" on the list of the "Nine Great Christie Novels". ---------- Also contained in: - [Five Complete Novels of Murder and Detection](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL471812W) - [Masterpieces of Murder](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL471974W) - [Novels](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24261345W) - [Oeuvres complètes d'Agatha Christie: Volume VII](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24710553W) - [Works](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17306242W) [1]: https://www.agathachristie.com/stories/and-then-there-were-none "If you’re one of the few who haven’t experienced the genius of Agatha Christie, this novel is a stellar starting point." — DAVID BALDACCI, #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorAn exclusive authorized edition of the most famous and beloved stories from the Queen of Mystery.Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to an isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die...Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?"Agatha Christie is the gateway drug to crime fiction both for readers and for writers. . . . Just one book is never enough." — VAL MCDERMID, Internationally Bestselling Author Ten houseguests, trapped on an isolated island, are the prey of a diabolical killer. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion: Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine ... When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale?

agatha Christie's Most Famous And Acclaimed Novel! Ten Strangers Are Gathered Together On An Isolated Island By A Mysterious Host. They Share The Darkest Secrets Of Their Pasts, And Then, One By One, They Die.

Ten strangers, each with a dark secret, are gathereed together on an isolated island by a mysterious host. One by one, they die, and before the weekend is out, there will be none