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This is one of many mysterious quotes found in Agatha Christie’s best-selling novel,
And Then There Were None. And Then There Were None features the stories of ten strangers, all with a wide variety of occupations and backstories, including a judge with an obsession with justice, a governess, a soldier, a doctor, a police inspector, a religious woman, a butler and his wife, a war general, and a handsome athlete.
All ten characters have one thing in common: they were invited to Soldier Island because they got away with a crime they had previously committed. Following their arrivals, people begin to die one by one and something becomes very clear: there is a killer among the 10 strangers.
Listen to Kelsey Patterson as she recommends And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. This is Kelsey Patterson with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out.
Today, I’m recommending a mystery classic
And Then There Were None by the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. First published in 1939, this is the story that made Agatha Christie the bestselling novelist of all time, it sold over 100 million copies, and is read the world over in more than 50 languages. Christie once said, “It was so difficult to do that the idea had fascinated me.” It was an idea which has now become the basis for many Hollywood horror films and is a cliché to modern audiences, but it was Agatha Christie who was the first to do it and so successfully that the story has become her most adapted piece of writing.