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Agatha Christie has been honoured by the Queen of England with the title "Dame Agatha Christie," and The New Yorker has observed of her works that they "have probably been outstripped in sales only by Shakespeare and the Bible." There can be little doubt that the more than 80 novels she has written are all considered significant contributions to the field of detective fiction. However, And Then There Were None is regarded by most critics to be her masterpiece. In this extraordinary mystery story, ten bodies are found by Scotland Yard inspectors on a deserted island--ten murder victims, yet no murderer in sight, and no way the murderer could have escaped! It is not only the solution, but the construction of this ingenious novel that accounts for its tremendous ongoing popularity.
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U.N.Owen, Anthony James Marston, Ethel Rogers, John Gordon MacArthur, Thomas Rogers, Emily Caroline Brent, Edward George Armstrong, William Henry Blore, Philip Lombard, Vera Elizabeth Claythorne, Lawrence John Wargrave, Isaac Morris, Fred Narracott, Thomas Legge, Inspector MainePlaces
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无人生还: And Then There Were None
2018, Xin xing chu ban she
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E Nao Sobrou Nenhum
2012, Globo de Bolso
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And Then There Were None
2007, Harper
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And Then There Were None
1973-07, Washington Square Press
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"IN THE CORNER of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the Times."
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And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, 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 children's counting rhyme and minstrel song, which serves as a major element of the plot. A US edition was released in January 1940 with the title And Then There Were None, which is taken from the last five words of the song. All successive American reprints and adaptations use that title, except for the Pocket Books paperbacks published between 1964 and 1986, which appeared under the title Ten Little Indians. UK editions continued to use the original title until the current definitive title appeared with a reprint of the 1963 Fontana Paperback in 1985.
In 1990 Crime Writers' Association ranked And Then There Were None 19th in their The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list. In 1995 in a similar list Mystery Writers of America ranked the novel 10th. In September 2015, to mark her 125th birthday, And Then There Were None was named the "World's Favourite Christie" in a vote sponsored by the author's estate. In the "Binge!" article of Entertainment Weekly Issue #1343-44 (26 December 2014–3 January 2015), the writers picked And Then There Were None as an "EW favorite" on the list of the "Nine Great Christie Novels".
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- Summary and trivia at AgathaChristie.com
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