![]() All have been complicit in the deaths of other human beings, but either escaped justice or committed an act that was not subject to legal sanction. In the novel, a group of people are lured into coming to an island under different pretexts, e.g., offers of employment, to enjoy a late summer holiday, or to meet old friends. And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by English writer Agatha Christie, widely considered her masterpiece and described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers, after the British blackface song, which serves as a major plot point. The US edition was not released until December 1939 its American reprints and adaptations were all re-titled And Then There Were None, the last five words in the original American version of the nursery rhyme (" Ten Little Indians"). ![]()
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