And Then There Were None (Audio Editions Mystery Masters)

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Summary: and there were none
Review: your on an island and wierd things are happning people are dieing

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Summary: trust me, read it and thank me later!
Review: I never realize that murder can be this beautiful. Please don't mistake me for psychopath because you may agree with me after reading this book. This book will definitely 'HAUNT' me for the rest of my life!

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Summary: If there's a better mystery novel, I've not read it
Review: Simply stated, this is best mystery novel I've ever read.

It all starts innocently enough; 10 guests are invited to a party on an isolated island. One by one, they start to die.
When the first few die, you think to yourself, well, ok, this is a mystery novel; one or two of them - perhaps three - die off, one of the rest figures it out, gathers everyone in the living room, the crimes are explained and the murderer cought.
But the guests keep on dying, and as they die, your tension grows: which of the ever dwindling party is the guilty one? who will be next? Who (if any) will remain? You feel yourself drawn into the speculations of the living, you form your own theories (only to see them dashed), and you try, much as the characters do, to make sense of what is happening. Surely this must stop at some point? Surely apprehension is just around the next page? Look, we're almost at the end of the book - this _has_ to stop, right? But it doesn't; the end nears, the list of living shrinks, and bewilderment, excitement and tension all grow. And then you read the end.

I am a fan of the mystery novel genre, and have read many books of different authors. I must confess, I have _never_ been so blown away as when I've read the ending of "And then there were none". So shocking and yet - and only in hindsite - so perfectly obvious, that I was absolutely beside myself.

The impression this book left in me stayed with me for years. If you read no other book by Christie (or any other mystery writer, for that matter), read this one!

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Summary: And then there were few better than this.
Review: Surely everyone in the world has read this book by now! Surely it tops the best-selling list of a best-selling author! Older readers may not recognize it by its current title, its original and a later replacement having been deemed too racist. Nothing racist, I hope, was picked up in my school English classes, where I used it to help develop pupils' appetite for reading.

Agatha Christie's achievement is remarkable. She creates ten characters, all suspected of murder, who are lured to an island. She has them meet their deaths one by one as nominated in the nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians" which is displayed in their rooms. She has each murder occur in a situation where almost all the other island guests might have had opportunity to commit it. As if devising all this were not enough, she also frequently takes us into the minds of the various characters - something that the whole nature of detective fiction usually prohibits. This construction is not only intricate but also compact; it is one of her shorter novels. Built on this scheme, the book must exclude Mrs Christie's regular sleuths, Poirot and Miss Marple. Instead, the dwindling number of island guests generate their own investigation.

So here is a book that offers double the pleasure that murder mysteries provide. As well as challenging you to solve the mystery, it also amazes you that so ingenious a mystery could be contrived.


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Summary: MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE
Review: From what I hear, and then there were none were fitted for different readers. Readers who would like to read detailed stories and mystery exciters would enjoy the books. People whho find intruguing and mysterious stories very unrealistic and boring would NOT want this book. Just a warning. Overall, i loved it.