Book Club Date: Friday, May 2 at 7:00pm (all other details like location, etc will be in our book club GroupMe)
Description:
‘We’re not going to leave the island. None of us will ever leave. It’s the end, you see – the end of everything…’
1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. When one of the party dies suddenly they realize they may be harboring a murderer among their number. The 10 strangers include a reckless playboy, a troubled Harley Street doctor, a formidable judge, an uncouth detective, an unscrupulous mercenary, a God-fearing spinster, two restless servants, a highly decorated general and an anxious secretary. One by one they are picked off. Who will survive? And who is the killer? Copies of an ominous nursery rhyme hang in each room, the murders mimicking the awful fates of its ‘Ten Little Soldier Boys’.
Fun Facts:
- And Then There Were None was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on November 6, 1939.
- Agatha Christie, who described it as the most difficult of her books to write.
- And Then There Were None is the best selling crime novel of all time.
- In 2015 And Then There Were None was voted the World’s Favorite Christie in a global vote to mark Agatha Christie’s 125th anniversary.
- The story has also inspired many parodies including the spoof Murder by Death (1976), which starred Sir Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith and Truman Capote among others, and even an episode of US cartoon Family Guy, titled And Then There Were Fewer (2010).
- 10 Things You Didn’t Know about “And Then There Were None”
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