...And Then There Were None
September 11, 2007
"...And Then There Were None," by Agatha Christie
Bantam Doubleday leatherbound edition
Agatha Christie wrote so many countless works that it is difficult to pinpoint one as her best and most distinctive work. This comes closest to the ideal. The story of ten people gathering in an island manor during a storm and a one by one murdered off by a killer that cannot be located. It's a perfect piece of atmosphere; the entire mystery genre distilled into one brutal little dosage. It's almost a shame that the crime must have a solution, though the last chapter presents one. Cutting off the last few pages would have made the book a beautiful piece of existentialism, but even with them it is one of the finest examples of the English murder mystery.
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