And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Holiday Horror
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. Ten people are invited as guests or hired
help on Indian Island, off the British Coast.
As they are all assembled after their arrival a voice suddenly announces
that they are charged with murder indictments and the voice proceeds to list
each of their victims. At this point they realize they are stranded on the
island in the hands of a yet-unseen, mysterious and obviously “dangerous and
probably insane” host. This isn’t the
vacation they signed up for. They’re
ready to leave. Unfortunately the boat that
delivered them has left and won’t return until the following day.
One person quickly winds up dead, and the group chalks it up to suicide, but then another person is found dead, and then another. It takes a
bit before they realize how a poem about ten little Indians is directly
connected to their situation. Soon they start suspecting each other all the
while hoping the boat would come back.
But, no such luck. The weather
and circumstances have turned dicey. And
this is the time before cell phones, so they couldn’t contact anyone on the
outside even if the weather allowed for a rescue mission to come to their aid.
As the title suggests, they were sitting ducks, picked off one by one. But how did they die and more importantly,
who and how was the serial killer orchestrating their deaths? You’ll have to read it to find out.
Happy Reading,
Annette
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