The guests do that too as they realise that the person committing the murders has to be one of them. The reader will find himself/herself consulting that page in the book to see how the next death will be accomplished. " rhyme which details how each of the ensuing deaths will occur. There is more about the history of the publication here.Įach of the ten guests has been responsible for at least one death, and in each of their rooms is a framed copy of the original "Ten Little. Wikipedia tells us that "it is Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the best-selling books of all time". That people still feel very strongly about the use of THAT word was an issue I raised in a post earlier this year: Creating P.C.
In the version published as TEN LITTLE INDIANS, we have Indian Island. This really is a novel with an extraordinary history.Ĭomplaints about the perjorative nature of the original title resulted in it being renamed with the last line of the original rhyme And Then There Were None for the American publication. You will have noticed that I have unapologetically used the original title of this novel, because that is the title of the copy that I have in hand. But soon a series of extraordinary events take place: the island is suddenly bathed in a most sinister light. Though they all have something to hide, they arrive hopefully on a glorious summer evening. 10 people are invited to a fabulous mansion on Nigger Island off the coast of Devon.
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