And Then There Were None

Brief Overview

«And Then There Were None» is a detective novel by Agatha Christie, which tells the story of ten people invited to an island under various pretexts. They soon discover that they have been summoned by an unknown host who accuses each of them of committing a murder for which they previously escaped punishment. One by one, the characters begin to die, with the manner of their deaths mirroring a nursery rhyme displayed in each room. Their deaths follow the rhyme's scenario, and the survivors try to determine who among them is the killer, until it becomes clear that no one else is left on the island. At the end of the book, it is revealed that the murderer was Judge Lawrence Wargrave, who orchestrated the killings to punish the guilty according to his own sense of justice. He meticulously planned his own death to appear as a suicide, leaving behind a confession note that is eventually discovered.