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Sunday, December 7, 2014

And Then There Were None by AGATHA CHRISTIE


And Then There Were None or Ten Little Niggers;無人生還 (Wú rén shēng huán)
一個都不留 (Yī gè dōu bù liú);عشرة عبيد زغار;Dix Petits Nègres is the most difficult of AGATHA CHRISTIE’s books to have written,published;firstly, in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939  as Ten Little Niggers, after the British  song which makes it as a major plot point. for the first American edition, it was changed as – And Then There Were None –which put in the American version of the song which called Ten Little Indians, for some editions, till the Christie formally confirmed the US title of the work.

 :Plot Summary


Ten people : Judge Francis J. Quinncannon, Dr. Edward G. Armstrong, Philip Lombard, Detective William Henry Blore, the secretary Vera Claythorne, Prince Nikita 'Nikki' Starloff, Gen. Sir John Mandrake and Emily Brent are invited for a weekend on an island by a Mr U. N. Own, but he isn't on the island. They find themselves facing their own deaths. Their unidentified host informs them, via a gramophone record, that as they have all been responsible for someone's death, they in turn will die before the weekend is out. Soon they are killed one-by-one while the each Indian vanishes from the decoration. One of them proposes that the killer is .
possibly between them.

And Then There Were None (1945) Ten Little Indians (1965) 



 Ten Little Indians - And Then There Were None


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