And Then There Were None in WACKY READING CHALLENGES

Sep 29, 2012 Book Concierge rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: murder, book-club, england, classic, movie, mystery, suspense, concierge, women-writers, crime

Audio book performed by Hugh Fraser
4****

This is perhaps Dame Christie’s ultimate achievement in mystery-writing.

Ten strangers are invited to a private island off the coast of England. On arrival they find that their mysterious host is not in attendance. Instead he has left a recording to be played after dinner, in which each is accused of having committed a murder in their past. Shortly after this revelation, one of them dies after drinking a whiskey laced with cyanide. The next morning another ...more

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Mar 28, 2011 Tien rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mystery, england, fav-on-kobo

Ten strangers were gathered on an isolated island. Each was accused of having committed murder in the past. And Then…

There were None…

The book is a fantastic murder mayhem mystery. There is no Miss Marple. There is no Monsieur Poirot. There are just… murders… mystery… and lots of maybes….

I love the suspense and the wonder of how exactly is the murderer going to be revealed or whether it will be revealed at all. I love Miss Marple & Monsieur Poirot but I reckon this is one of Christie's best work ...more

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Feb 06, 2015 Jody rated it it was amazing

Shelves: popsugar-2015, guardian-1000, book-bub-100-classics

Now THAT is how you write a mystery.

Clever, intriguing, and not overdone. Very lean - no useless information or excess babble. Loved it!

And I'm wondering if this inspired the character of Dexter at all - justice against those who got away with it. ...more

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Jun 26, 2014 Connie N. rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio-done, mystery, black, narr-hugh-fraser

Fascinating, diabolical, clever, and very suspenseful mystery by Christie--one of her best. This is actually 10 murders, all creepily matched to the Ten Little Indians nursery rhyme and all taking place on an island in a storm in a very gothic fashion. It's the classic locked room mystery, but to the 10th degree! As each person is killed in a suspicious manner, then the suspense grows among the remaining people. Because each of them is guilty of his/her own wrongdoing, they are easily susceptibl ...more

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Oct 31, 2014 Sunshine✰✰✰ rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery, suspense

What a great book. I was clueless as to who the murderer was all the way to the end. It made me think of Clue, but instead of "who killed the host," it was "which of you is the murderer" as one by one, everyone was killed. ...more

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Mar 29, 2020 Hannah Peterson rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: aty-2019-2020

The only other Agatha Christie book I've read was Murder on the Orient Express, which I absolutely adored. Part of the reason that I found that book so appealing was the immersive experience of the old fashioned train journey. I didn't find And Then There Were None to be quite so appealingly immersive, but it was was quite clever and well done. Just not quite to my personal taste as Murder on the Orient Express was! ...more

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