And Then There Were None
Cover of first edition featuring the original Ten Little Niggers title.
Author	Agatha Christie
Original title	Ten Little Niggers
Cover artist	Not known
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Crime novel
Publisher	Collins Crime Club
Publication date	November 6, 1939
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	256 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	The Regatta Mystery
Followed by	Sad Cypress

And Then There Were None is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 6, 1939^[1] under the title of Ten Little Niggers^[2][3] and in US by Dodd, Mead and Company in January 1940 under the title of And Then There Were None^[4]. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6)^[2] and the US edition at $2.00^[4]. The novel has also been published and filmed under the title Ten Little Indians. It is Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery, according to the editors of Publications International, Ltd Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. ... // Nigger is a racial slur used to refer to dark-skinned people, especially those of African ancestry. ... For other uses, see Country (disambiguation). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... The Collins Crime Club was an imprint of UK book publishers William Collins & Co Ltd and ran from May 1930 to April 1994. ... See also: 1938 in literature, other events of 1939, 1940 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Hardcover books A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth, heavy paper, or sometimes leather). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... ISBN redirects here. ... The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (1939) is a collection of nine short stories by Agatha Christie, featuring Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Parker Pyne. ... Sad Cypress (published in 1940) is a crime novel, written by Agatha Christie, featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. ... And Then There Were None is a 1943 play by crime writer Agatha Christie The play, like the 1939 book on which it is based, was originally titled and performed in the UK as Ten Little Niggers. ... The 1945 movie And Then There Were None is one of several film adaptations of Agatha Christies best-selling mystery novel And Then There Were None concerning several people summoned to an island retreat by a mysterious stranger, only to meet their ends one by one. ... Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centers upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. ... Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. ... The Collins Crime Club was an imprint of UK book publishers William Collins & Co Ltd and ran from May 1930 to April 1994. ... See also: 1938 in literature, other events of 1939, 1940 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Black people or blacks is a racial, political, sociological or cultural classification of people. ... Frank Howard Dodd, (1844-1916), was the leading publisher at Dodd, Mead and Company of New York City from 1870 until his death, January 16, 1916. ... See also: 1939 in literature, other events of 1940, 1941 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The shilling was a British coin first issued in 1548 for Henry VIII, although arguably the testoon issued about 1487 for Henry VII was the first shilling. ... Obverses of the 1787 and 1818 sixpence depicting George III. The sixpence, known colloquially as the tanner, was a British pre-decimal coin, worth, as the name indicates, six pence. ... $, the dollar sign, is primarily used to represent currencies: Many different dollars Many different pesos Different escudos The Brazilian real The Tongan paanga The Nicaraguan córdoba $ may also be: $ (film), also known as Dollars A sigil (computer programming) Category: ...

Plot introduction

Ten people, each with a deadly secret, find themselves trapped on an island where they become the subjects of a cruel game in which a person calls him or herself "U.N. Owen" (Unknown). Each person dies one by one along the lines of a nursery rhyme. As they do, china dolls discreetly disappear as each person dies. No one else is on the island except for these people, so one of them is the murderer.

Characters in "And Then There Were None"

• Anthony James Marston. An almost perfect specimen of a man born to a wealthy family. Amoral, vain and self-absorbed, with no time for worrying about those whom he may have harmed, intentionally or otherwise.
• Mrs. Ethel Rogers, the nervous housekeeper and cook. She is a pale-faced, ghostlike woman with shifty light eyes, who is scared easily. One of the first people to come to the island; respectable and efficient but seems scared of something and is always looking over her shoulder.
• General John Gordon Macarthur, a retired World War I hero. Now a lonely but still proud man who has lost contact with his old friends in the military and has, according to the rumors, more than a few skeletons in his closet.
• Mr. Thomas Rogers, the butler, Mrs. Rogers' husband. One of the first people to come to the island; respectable and efficient but with no imagination. He is a very hard worker even in his old age.
• Emily Caroline Brent, an elderly spinster and a religious zealot. A woman of unyielding principles who uses the Christian Bible to justify her inability to show compassion or understanding for others, which may have caused suffering in the past. Her crime was dismissing her pregnant maid, Beatrice Taylor, who later threw herself into a river.
• Justice Lawrence Wargrave, a wealthy and sadistic retired judge, well known as a hanging judge. He was accused in the story of having caused the murder of a man by the name of Edward Seton by changing the jury's decision for ulterior motives, from not guilty to guilty, and Seton was executed. Most importantly, he is responsible for all of the murders.
• Dr. Edward George Armstrong, a Harley Street surgeon and a former alcoholic. Worked his way up the social ladder but lately he has become tired of the long working hours and little reprieve.
• William Henry Blore, a retired police inspector, now a private investigator. A big, hulking and bullying man who solved a series of robberies during his police days but may not have been entirely honest about his methods.
• Philip Lombard, a soldier of fortune. Traveled most of the world and has a reputation of being a good man in a tight spot: he has apparently "sailed very near the wind" on occasion due to shady activities. Literally down to his last square meal, he comes to the island with a loaded revolver.
• Vera Elizabeth Claythorne, a young teacher, secretary, and ex-governess. She is forced to take mostly secretarial jobs since her last job as a governess ended in the death of her charge. She let Cyril Hamilton swim out to sea and drown so that his uncle, Hugo Hamilton, could inherit his money and marry her. Out of all the characters, Vera is the most tormented by her guilt and the thought of her ex-lover.
• Mr. Owen, the unseen host whose voice is heard on the record (or tape in film adaptations) that accuses all of them of murdering various people. He was voiced on film by Christopher Lee, Orson Wells, and Victor Travers among others.
• Fred Naracott, the boat driver that only appears once in the story while bringing the guests to Soldier Island.
• Sir Thomas Legge and Inspector Maine, two policemen who discuss the case in the epilogue.

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Plot summary

Ten people journey to a house on Soldier Island off the coast of Devon. Upon arriving, each one finds a slightly odd bit of bric-a-brac in his or her room and a framed copy of a nursery rhyme, Ten Little Soldier boys, hanging on the wall: (Note: In the original 1939 UK publication, the rhyme used the phrase Ten Little Niggers and the action was set on Nigger Island. In the 1940 US publication, the rhyme was Ten Little Indians and the island was called Indian Island. Both versions were used for some sixty years. Present-day printings of the book, endorsed by the Christie estate, use the phrases Ten Little Soldier boys and Soldier Island. The 2005 play also used this version. The computer game uses Ten Little Sailors.) For other uses, see Devon (disambiguation). ... The term bric-a-brac refers to a selection of items of low value, often sold in street markets. ...

Ten little Soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine.
Nine little Soldier boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were Eight.
Eight little Soldier boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there and then there were Seven.
Seven little Soldier boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves and then there were Six.
Six little Soldier boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were Five.
Five little Soldier boys going in for law; One got into Chancery and then there were Four.
Four little Soldier boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were Three.
Three little Soldier boys walking in the Zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were Two.
Two little Soldier boys were out in the sun; One got all frizzled up and then there was one. (in some versions Two Little Soldier boys playing with a gun; One shot the other and then there was one.)
One little Soldier boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none. For other uses, see Devon (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Law (disambiguation). ... One of the courts of equity in England and Wales. ... Look up red herring in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Zoo (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Bear (disambiguation). ... Sol redirects here. ...

Ten figurines of little Soldiers are found in the dining room.

When the guests gather in the parlor after dinner the first night, a gramophone recording bearing the label Swan Song informs them that all ten of them have been found guilty of murder, although in each case, the law was powerless to punish them: Edison cylinder phonograph from about 1899 The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s. ... For other uses, see Swan Song. ...

• Anthony Marston ran over and killed John and Lucy Combes while driving recklessly. Due to his wealth and social position, he was never properly prosecuted and simply had his driver's license withdrawn.
• Mr. and Mrs. Rogers let their invalid employer, Jennifer Brady, die by withholding her medicine.
• General MacArthur sent his wife's lover, Lieutenant Arthur Richmond, on a suicidal mission during World War I.
• Miss Brent dismissed her maid, Beatrice Taylor, after she became pregnant. The maid later committed suicide.
• Wargrave gave the death penalty to a defendant, Edward Seton, despite the evidence supporting his innocence.
• Armstrong performed an operation while drunk and thereby killed Louisa Mary Clees.
• Blore planted false evidence in the trial of James Landor, accused of bank robbery, who later died in prison.
• Lombard abandoned a party of 21 native retainers to die in the African bush.
• Vera Claythorne purposefully let Cyril Hamilton, a small boy in her care, swim out to sea and drown. He was in the way of an inheritance which would otherwise go to her lover Hugo Hamilton. A coroner's inquest cleared her, but Hugo left her since he loved Cyril, his nephew, and was convinced of Vera's guilt.

The characters realize they have all been tricked into coming to the island, but now have no way to get back to the mainland. The guests are then murdered, one by one, with each murder referring to a verse of the poem found in their rooms. First to die is Anthony Marston, who dies from cyanide in his drink (one choked his little self). The next morning, Mrs. Rogers never wakes up and is assumed to have received a fatal overdose of sleeping drugs (one overslept himself). At lunchtime, General MacArthur, who had predicted that he would never leave the island alive, is found dead from a blow to the back of his head (one said he'd stay there). In growing panic, the survivors search the island for the murderer or possible hiding places, but find nothing. First German driving school in 1906, Aschaffenburg Current EU driving licence, German version - front 1. ... Look up invalid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Death penalty, death sentence, and execution redirect here. ... This article is about the chemical compound. ...

They then realize that the murderer must be one of them, and is playing a sadistic game, killing them in a manner paralleling the nursery rhyme, and also removing one of ten little figurines in the dining room after each murder. The survivors have a meeting and discover that none of them has an alibi for any of the deaths. They conclude that the murderer is dispensing his own form of justice.

The next morning, Rogers is found dead in the woodshed, having been struck in the head with a large axe (one chopped himself in half). Later that day, Emily Brent dies from an injection of potassium cyanide – the injection mark on her neck is an allusion to a bee sting (a bumblebee stung one). The hypodermic needle is found outside, thrown from the window along with a smashed china soldier figurine. The five survivors – Dr. Armstrong, Justice Wargrave, Philip Lombard, Vera Claythorne, and Inspector Blore – become increasingly frightened. Wargrave announces that anything on the island that could be used as a weapon should be locked up. They lock up Wargrave's sleeping pills and Armstrong's medical equipment, but Lombard's revolver has gone missing. They spend the afternoon sitting around, watching each other. Potassium cyanide is the inorganic compound with the formula KCN. This colorless crystalline compound, similar in appearance to sugar, is highly soluble in water. ...

Everyone decides to just sit around, with only one leaving at any one time – theoretically, they should all be safe that way. Vera, the one most wracked by guilt, goes up to her room and is frightened by a strand of seaweed that reminds her of the boy she murdered by drowning. Everyone goes to check on her, and when they return to the drawing room, they discover that the Judge has been shot through the head, while dressed up in a judge's wig and gown. (one got in Chancery) – but they can't figure out who had the chance to do it. That night, the ex-policeman, Blore, hears someone sneaking out. He searches the remaining rooms, and discover that Armstrong, the doctor, is missing – so he must be the killer.

Vera, Inspector Blore, and Lombard think it best to go outside when morning arrives. Blore later returns to the house to get some sustenance, and a dull thud is heard. When Vera and Philip come to see what happened, they find Blore dead, his head crushed by a heavy marble clock shaped like a bear (a big bear hugged one). Not knowing if Armstrong is dead or alive, they assume that he did it and decide to stay out of the house.

The pair then walk along the cliffs, finding in the process Armstrong's drowned body (a red herring swallowed one). Vera and Lombard then realize that they are the only two left. Even though neither could possibly have murdered the Inspector, their mutual suspicion has driven them to a breaking point and each of them assumes the other to be the murderer.

Vera tricks Lombard into helping her lift Armstrong's body out of reach of the water, and while Lombard is busy, snatches his revolver. Lombard then reaches for his revolver, only to discover that Vera has taken it. She shoots him dead on the beach (out in the sun, or one shot the other, depending on the version). Vera then returns to the house, thinking she is finally safe. But when she gets to her room, she discovers a noose hanging there, with a chair under it. Having finally been driven mad by the entire experience (or "hypnotically suggestible") and experiencing horrible feelings of latent guilt for her crimes, Vera hangs herself in the room, kicking the chair out from under her, fulfilling the final verse of the rhyme (He went out and hanged himself). For the 1948 British film, see Noose (film). ...

Epilogue

The epilogue to the novel consists of a conversation concerning the unsolved mystery. Inspector Maine, who is in charge of the case, is making his report to the Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard. The police are baffled, although a chance comment made by one of them could give the clue they need to solve the mystery, but to no avail. (Oddly they take no notice of the rhyme on the victims' wall.) New Scotland Yard, London New Scotland Yard, it blowwsssss often referred to simply as Scotland Yard or The Yard, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for policing Greater London (although not the City of London itself). ...

They have concluded from the physical evidence and various characters' diaries and journal entries that Blore, Armstrong, Lombard, and Claythorne were definitely the last to die.

Blore could not have died last, as the clock was definitely dropped onto him from above, and it would have been impossible for him to have it fall on him. Armstrong could not have been last since his drowned body was dragged above the high-tide mark by someone else. Nor could Lombard, since he was shot on the beach and the revolver was found upstairs in the hallway, outside the door of Wargrave's room. That left Vera (whose fingerprints were on the pistol and from whose window the clock was dropped on Blore), who hanged herself from the ceiling; but the chair from which she leapt with the noose around her neck was found pushed against the wall, out of reach from where she might have stood on it. A Browning 9 millimeter Hi-Power Ordnance pistol of the French Navy, 19th century, using a Percussion cap mechanism Derringers were small and easily hidden. ...

The man who made all the arrangements for the island was Isaac Morris, a shady dealer known to efficiently cover his tracks when doing business. He was also the one who hired Lombard to go to the island. However, he cannot tell the police anything: he died of an overdose the day the party set sail.

During the period when the killings were taking place and immediately after, no-one could have gotten onto or left the island without being seen and the weather was too bad anyway. This rules out the possibility that "Mr. Owen" was some unidentified person who committed the murders while evading detection by the guests. It is also thought that Fred Narracott might have been the killer.

Hence, although one of the ten guests must have been the killer, none of them could have been.

Postscript

A bottle with a letter in it is found by a fishing trawler. The master of the trawler sends it to Scotland Yard. The late Judge Lawrence Wargrave wrote the letter to explain that he had planned the killings because, he writes, ever since he was a child, he had been prone both to sadism and to a fascination with the legal system. Wargrave first freely divulges his own hunger for blood, combined with his desire for strict justice (he never was able to punish someone whom he honestly thought as innocent) and his delight in seeing the guilty punished. When Wargrave was told by his Harley Street physician that he was terminally ill, Wargrave decided to go out in a blaze of drama which would satiate his inner urges, rather than just letting his life slowly trickle away. Look up sadism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Thereafter, he details how he picked his victims, including a drug-dealing hypochondriac, Isaac Morris, whose drugs led to the death of a daughter of friends of Wargrave. Wargrave mostly heard about the cases in the course of his work, and even met the man whose life was ruined after Vera Claythorne, his lover, caused the death of his beloved nephew, wanting to make him the inheritor of the boy's fortune. Wargrave explains how he murdered Morris, Marston, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, Macarthur, and Emily Brent. He then convinced Dr. Armstrong to (falsely) pronounce him "dead", thus allowing the two to meet by the cliffs to discuss a strategy for determining the killer's identity. When Armstrong arrived, Wargrave tricked him into peering over the edge and shoved him over, then went back to the house and pretended to be dead. His trick made it possible for him to kill Blore and orchestrate the deaths of Lombard and Vera.

After Vera (the guiltiest of the "condemned" according to the judge, since she deliberately allowed a child to drown but managed to pass herself off as a heroine who tried to rescue the boy) hanged herself, Wargrave, who had been watching from the bedroom closet, pushed the chair against the wall. He then wrote out his confession, putting the letter in a bottle and casting the bottle into the sea. He states that his only regret is that it was not enough to concoct an unsolvable mystery – he craves posthumous recognition of his brilliant scheme – therefore he explains three clues which should point to him as the killer in case his letter is not found:

1. Wargrave mentions in the letter that Edward Seton's death was justified because Seton, despite his charm and excellent performance on the witness stand, was genuinely guilty of the crime of which he was accused, proof of which the police would have. Therefore, Wargrave was the only guest who did not wrongfully cause the death of anyone (before coming to the island), though paradoxically, he would then be the executor.
2. The "red herring" line in the poem suggests the fact that Armstrong was tricked into his death – and that the respectable Justice Wargrave is the only person in whom Armstrong would have been likely to confide.
3. The bullet would leave a red mark in Wargrave's forehead similar to the mark of Cain, the first murderer described in the Biblical Old Testament.

The conclusion of the judge's letter indicates that he planned to shoot himself while sitting on his bed, so that his body would fall onto the bed as if it had been laid there. He fastened the gun to the doorknob with a piece of elastic cord in such a way that the recoil would snap the gun out into the hallway as the door to his room closed. Thus the police found ten dead bodies and an unsolvable mystery on Soldier Island. An executor is a person named by a maker of a will to carry out the directions of the will. ... In Christianity and Judaism, the curse of Cain and the mark of Cain refer to the Biblical passages in the Book of Genesis chapter 4, where God declared that Cain, the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, was cursed, and placed a mark upon him to warn others that killing... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box:      Note: Judaism...

Literary significance and reception

The Times Literary Supplement's review by Maurice Percy Ashley of November 11, 1939 stated that, "If her latest story has scarcely any detection in it there is no scarcity of murders." He continued, "There is a certain feeling of monotony inescapable in the regularity of the deaths which is better suited to a serialized newspaper story than a full-length novel. Yet there is an ingenious problem to solve in naming the murderer. It will be an extremely astute reader who guesses correctly."^[5] The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation. ...

Maurice Richardson wrote a rhapsodic review in The Observer's issue of November 5, 1939 which began, "No wonder Agatha Christie's latest has sent her publishers into a vatic trance. We will refrain, however, from any invidious comparisons with Roger Ackroyd and be content with saying that Ten Little Niggers is one of the very best, most genuinely bewildering Christies yet written. We will also have to refrain from reviewing it thoroughly, as it is so full of shocks that even the mildest revelation would spoil some surprise from somebody, and I am sure that you would rather have your entertainment kept fresh than criticism pure." After stating the set-up of the plot, Richardson concluded, "Story telling and characterisation are right at the top of Mrs. Christie's baleful form. Her plot may be highly artificial, but it is neat, brilliantly cunning, soundly constructed, and free from any of those red-herring false trails which sometimes disfigure her work."^[6] Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (published in 1926) is a detective novel by Agatha Christie. ...

Robert Barnard: "Unusually suspenseful and menacing detective-story-cum-thriller. The closed setting with the succession of deaths is here taken to its logical conclusion, and the dangers of ludicrousness and sheer reader-disbelief are skillfully avoided. Probably the best-known Christie, and justifiably among the most popular."^[7] Robert Barnard (born November 23, 1936} is a mystery writer, critic and lecturer. ...

Film, TV and theatrical adaptations

And Then There Were None has had more adaptations than any other single work of Christie's with the setting often being changed to locations other than an island and mostly utilising Christie's alternative ending from her 1943 stage play rather than that used in the book.

Stage

• In 1943, Agatha Christie adapted the story for the stage. In the process of doing so, she realized that the novel's grim conclusion would not work dramatically on stage as there would be no one left to tell the tale, so she reworked the ending for Lombard and Vera to be innocent of the crimes of which they were accused, survive, and fall in love. Some of the names were also changed with General Macarthur becoming General McKenzie.

Main article: And Then There Were None (1943 play)

• On October 14, 2005 a new version of play, written by Kevin Elyot and directed by Steven Pimlott opened at the Gielgud Theatre in London. For this version, Elyot returned to the book version of story and restored the original ending where both Vera and Lombard die and Wargarve commits suicide.

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Film

• The story was first adapted for the cinema screen in René Clair's successful 1945 US production.

Main article: And Then There Were None (1945 film)

• The second cinema adaptation of the book was directed by George Pollock in 1965 who had previously handled the four Miss Marple films starring Margaret Rutherford. This film transferred the setting from a remote island to a mountain retreat in Austria.

Main article: Ten Little Indians (1965 film)

• Gumnaan is a 1965 uncredited adaptation set in a remote Indian location by the sea. Many elements were added to Christie's story in an film directed by Raja Nawathe from a screenplay by Dhruva Chatterjee.

Main article: Gumnaam

• Five Bambole per la Luna D'Agosto ("Five Dolls for an August Moon") (1970) is an uncredited giallo adaptation by Mario Bava.

Main article: Five Dolls for an August Moon

• And Then There Were None (1974) was the first colour English-language film version of the novel, directed by Peter Collinson from a screenplay by Peter Welbeck. This version was set in the Iranian desert.

Main article: And Then There Were None (1974 film)

• Desyat Negrityat ("Ten Little Negroes") (1987). This film from the USSR, written and directed by Stanislav Govorukhin, is the only cinema adaptation to use the novel's original ending.

Main article: Desyat Negrityat

• Ten Little Indians (1989). The most recent film version of the novel, directed by Alan Birkinshaw, was set on an African safari.

Main article: Ten Little Indians (1989 film)

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Television

• Ten Little Niggers (1949). UK. BBC TV adaptation.
• Ten Little Niggers (1959). UK. ITV adaptation
• Ten Little Indians (1959). Directed by Paul Bogart, Philip F. Falcone, Leo Farrenkopf and Dan Zampino; screenplay by Philip H. Reisman Jr. USA. Truncated TV adaptation of the play.
• Dix petits nègres (1970). Directed by Pierre Sabbagh; screenplay by Pierre Brive. French TV adaptation.

Other

• The K.B.S. Productions Inc. film, A Study in Scarlet (1933), predates the publication of Ten Little Niggers and follows a strikingly similar plot.^[8] It is a Sherlock Holmes movie but bears no resemblance to Arthur Conan Doyle's original story of the same name. In this case, the rhyme refers to "Ten Little Black Boys".

• Although not a direct adaptation, the film Mindhunters (2004) closely follows the storyline of the book.

• On October 27, 2005, The Adventure Company released And Then There Were None as the first in a series of releases of PC games based on Christie novels.

Main article: Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None

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Publication history

Cover of first US 1940 edition with the title currently used in all English-language versions

The novel was originally published in Britain under the title Ten Little Niggers in 1939^[2][3]. All references to "Indian" in the story were originally "Nigger": thus the island was called "Nigger Island" ^[3] rather than "Indian Island" and the rhyme found by each murder victim was also called Ten Little Niggers ^[3] rather than Ten Little Indians. Modern printings use the rhyme Ten Little Soldiers and "Soldier Island".

The UK serialisation was in twenty-three parts in the Daily Express from Tuesday, June 6 to Saturday, July 1, 1939. All of the instalments carried an illustration by "Prescott" with the first instalment having an illustration of Burgh Island in Devon which inspired the setting of the story. This version did not contain any chapter divisions^[9]. For other uses, see Daily Express (disambiguation). ... Burgh Island (, ) is a small tidal island off the south coast of Devon in England near to the small seaside village of Bigbury on Sea. ...

For the United States market, the novel was first serialised in the Saturday Evening Post in seven parts from May 20 (Volume 211, Number 47) to July 1, 1939 (Volume 212, Number 1) with illustrations by Henry Raleigh and then published separately in book form in January 1940. Both publications used the less inflammatory title And Then There Were None. The 1945 motion picture also used this title. In 1946, the play was published under the new title Ten Little Indians (the same title under which it had been performed on Broadway), and in 1964, an American paperback edition also used this title. There have been many publications called the Saturday Evening Post; several were/are local British newspapers. ... For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ...

British editions continued to use the work's original title until the 1980s and the first British edition to use the alternative title And Then There Were None appeared in 1985 with a reprint of the 1963 Fontana Paperback. ^[10] Today And Then There Were None is the title most commonly used. However, the original title survives in many foreign-language versions of the novel: for example, the Spanish title is Diez Negritos, while the French title is Dix petits nègres. ^[11] A Dutch translation available as late as 1981 even used the work's original English title Ten Little Niggers. The 1987 Russian film adaptation has the title Десять негритят (Desyat' negrityat). The computer adventure game based on the novel uses "Ten Little Sailor Boys."

• Christie, Agatha (November 1939). Ten Little Niggers. London: Collins Crime Club. OCLC 152375426.  Hardback, 256 pp. (First edition)
• Christie, Agatha (January 1940). And Then There Were None. New York: Dodd, Mead. OCLC 1824276.  Hardback, 264 pp. (First US edition)
• 1944, Pocket Books, 1944, Paperback, 173 pp (Pocket number 261)
• 1947, Pan Books, 1947, Paperback, 190 pp (Pan number 4)
• 1958, Penguin Books, 1958, Paperback, 201 pp (Penguin number 1256)
• Christie, Agatha (1963). And Then There Were None. London: Fontana. OCLC 12503435.  Paperback, 190 pp. (The 1985 reprint was the first UK publication of novel under title "And Then There Were None". ^[12])
• Christie, Agatha (1964). Ten Little Indians. New York: Pocket Books. OCLC 29462459.  (First publication of novel under title "Ten Little Indians")
• 1964, Washington Square Press, 1964, (Paperback - teacher's edition)
• Christie, Agatha (1977). Ten Little Niggers, Greenway edition, London: Collins Crime Club. ISBN 0002318350.  Collected works, Hardback, 252 pp (Except for reprints of the 1963 Fontana paperback, this was one of the last English-language publications of novel under the title "Ten Little Niggers"^[13])
• Christie, Agatha (1980). The Mysterious Affair at Styles; Ten Little Niggers; Dumb Witness. Sydney: Lansdowne Press. ISBN 0701814535.  Late use of the original title in an Australian edition.
• Christie, Agatha; N J Robat (trans.) (1981). Ten Little Niggers, Third edition (in Dutch), Culemborg: Educaboek. ISBN 9011851536.  (Late printing of Dutch translation preserving original English title)
• Christie, Agatha (1986). Ten Little Indians. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 0671552228.  (Last publication of novel under title "Ten Little Indians")

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Comic strip adaptation

And Then There Were None will be released by HarperCollins as a comic strip adaptation on August 4, 2008, adapted by François Rivière and illustrated by Frank Leclercq. ISBN 0-00-727532-3 This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ...

References

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External links

• And Then There Were None at the official Agatha Christie website
• Ten Little Indians (1944) at the Internet Broadway Database
• And Then There Were None (1945 film) at the Internet Movie Database
• Ten Little Niggers (UK TV: 1948) at the Internet Movie Database
• Ten Little Niggers (UK TV: 1959) at the Internet Movie Database
• Ten Little Indians (US TV: 1959) at the Internet Movie Database
• Ten Little Indians (1965 film) at the Internet Movie Database
• Gumnaam (1965 Indian film) at the Internet Movie Database
• Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970 Italian film) at the Internet Movie Database
• Dix petits nègres (French TV: 1970) at the Internet Movie Database
• And Then There Were None (1974 film) at the Internet Movie Database
• Desyat negrityat (1987 film) at the Internet Movie Database
• Ten Little Indians (1989 film) at the Internet Movie Database
• Spark Notes for novel
• Game on World of Spectrum based on the novel
• Web page for Burgh Island , the setting of which is used in And Then There Were None and Evil Under the Sun.