Synopses & Reviews
One of the most famous and beloved stories from the Queen of Mystery, with more than 100 million copies sold!
Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to an isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die...
Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?
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“One of the very best, most genuinely bewildering Christies.” The Observer (UK)
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“The most astonishingly impudent, ingenious and altogether successful mystery story since The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.” Daily Herald (UK)
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“What Agatha Christie taught me was all about the delicate placement of the red herring. She was the ultimate genius behind ‘by indirections shall we find directions out. ” Elizabeth George, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Lynley novels
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“There is no cheating; the reader is just bamboozled in a straightforward way from first to last….The most colossal achievement of a colossal career. The book must rank with Mrs. Christies previous beston the top notch of detection.” New Statesman (UK)
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“One of the most ingenious thrillers in many a day.” Time magazine
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“The whole thing is utterly impossible and utterly fascinating. It is the most baffling mystery Agatha Christie has ever written.” New York Times
About the Author
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976.