![]() ![]() Obviously, they all decide to get while the getting’s good – who wants to hang around on an island with a corpse, especially when all the living souls there with you know your darkest secret? The thing is, a terrible storm blows up, preventing any boats from traveling to or from the mainland. By the time they’ve stopped reeling from the announcement, one of the guests is dead. Specifically, each one of them has committed (or contributed to) a murder. On the first evening, while they’re all finishing up dinner, a recorded voice piped into the room by gramophone accuses them all of having a guilty secret. All were brought there under similar false pretenses: an invitation from an old friend, a job offer from an agency, and so forth. Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion. (Christie herself also declared it to be the “most difficult” book she ever wrote, by the way.) ![]() (If you use an affiliate link on this page, I’ll earn a small commission – and then there were $!) ![]()
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