AC - AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Paperback

Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" is a masterpiece of suspense and arguably the most famous and ingenious locked-room mystery ever written. Ten strangers, each harboring a dark secret from their past, are lured under various pretexts to a remote, isolated island off the coast of Devon. Their mysterious hosts, a Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen, are conspicuously absent. During their first night, a gramophone recording plays, accusing each guest, in turn, of an unpunished murder. Cut off from the mainland by a violent storm, the guests soon realize that a killer is among them, systematically picking them off one by one, with each death eerily mirroring the verses of the chilling nursery rhyme, "Ten Little Soldier Boys," which hangs in every room. As paranoia and fear mount, the dwindling group desperately tries to unmask the murderer before they become the next victim, in a relentless and utterly baffling tale that keeps readers guessing until the shocking final reveal.