And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Title: And Then There Were None


Series: None

Author(s): Agatha Christie

Genre: Mystery

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Received: Purchased at bookstore.

Release Date: December 1939

Finished: April 15, 2010

Pages: 275

Challenges: None

Rating:

My Thoughts: 10 people meet for the first time at a house on a island. They were all invited by the owner of the house. As they get to know each other, they begin to wonder where the owner is and strange circumstances follow. First they find a morbid poem about ten Indians who die one by one in specific ways, and then people start dying under the same circumstances as the Indians in the poem.



I was a little afraid when I started reading this book that I would have to remember every detail of the characters being presented, but that wasn't necessary. It was a quick read and fast paced, and I never guessed who the killer was in the end. It was also complicated, but not so much that I didn't understand what was going on. I had never read anything by Agatha Christie, and this was a good one to start with.



About the Author: Agatha Christie was born in the U.K. in 1890 and passed in 1976. She has been dubbed as the Queen of Crime for her famous mystery books. This site http://uk.agathachristie.com/ has more then a enough information about the writer.