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And Then There Were None

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Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a lonely 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 start to die...

Possibly her most famous book, and certainly the most adapted, Christie used different endings for the novel and her stage adaptation, giving the stage version a happier ending.  The Boston Transcript wrote, “For absolute horror and complete bafflement Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, takes all prizes.”  It has been filmed five times.

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