Great book but I wish it was tagged correctly. The author is listed as Christie,Agatha (no space after the comma) so it shows up as "Christie,Agatha" instead of "Agatha Christie" on Kindle. I know it is a nit; but for $5 I expect things to be formatted correctly. Alas, you can't change the tagging--a feature I wish Amazon would add.

This book is so awesome! I was guessing until the epilogue, though I vaguely remember the movie. I kept thinking of what Agatha Christie said in the prologue of how hard it was to pull this book off and it was brilliant. Bravo! :) P.S. this is the first fiction novel I read on my Kindle 2 (I read it in 2 days).

In And then there were none, ten unaquainted people are lured out to an island under false pretenses. Upon arriving, they learn their mysterious host, a U.N. Owen has not yet arrived. In fact, they soon discover their host will not arrive. Through the use of a gramophone a recording plays accusing the ten people of certain crimes from their past.

One by one the stranded visitors begin to drop like flies. The question is, who this elusive U N Owens and why have these ten random people been chosen as victims? The ending wasn't as shocking as in Murder on the Orient Express, but I still managed to remain somewhat in the dark until the end. Although, I had my suspicions, which turned out to be accurate!

A word of caution, if you haven't read this novel, don't read too many reviews. Some of them, in my opinion, reveal too much information. It's best to read an Agatha Christie novel with as little clues as possible. If you haven't read it yet, read Murder on the Orient Express, but don't scroll all the way down the page to read any reviews on Amazon. Someone thought it would be cute to reveal the identity of the murderer as the subject of their review.

Decent mystery book. Didn't have a chance to get into it fully as quickly as I would have liked, and it seemed to match something that I would find on any run of the mill television series which might have been my problem. Regardless, it conveyed a well written personal touch of each of the characters, and drew me into the story enough to lament their respective deaths, which is really the goal of the book anyway

Let me say this- I'm a sucker for mysteries, and for a time, Agatha Christie used to be one of my favorite writers. However, this doesn't seem like an Agatha Christie novel. It seems to be more along the lines of a Phillip Margolin- and yet he is able to do it more effectively.

My issue with this story is that it simply is not a mystery. Now, there is a murderer, but the evidence that points to them is so utterly convoluted and badly described, that it's extremely difficult to have that "Oh yeah, I KNEW it was them!" reaction, which is one of the reasons why I like to read mysteries. In fact, Ms. Christie seems to KNOW that she didn't explain the evidence well enough for many people to get it, so she decides that it's neccesary to create an epilogue, explaining who the killer is, and how they got away with it.

Now, the plot is basicially this- you have 10 strangers, all of whom have committed some sort of crime gathered onto the island, by a mysterious U.N. Owen. Soon they realize that Mr. Owen is a psudonym, and that this person doesn't actually exist. As members of the group are killed one by one, following a nusery rhyme about ten little "soldier boys" (Or "indians" depending on the version you're reading), who by the end are all dead, the group tries to find the killer, or figure out who it is in their midst, before he kills them all.


Now, the seeming perfect "alibi" that Ms. Christie devises for her killer is pretty clever, but it requires so many assumptions, and for things to go PERFECTLY for the plan to work. Really, this is true about the murderer's plan in general. If, at any point, somebody had given into the pressure and shot themselves in the head, the whole plot would have been ruined.

There are legitimately creepy points in this novel, but it feels more like a psychological thriller than a mystery, which is what I bought the book for. I bought this book expecting a mystery, and then there was none.

(I am willing to discuss specifics further in the comments section, not here, as that may spoiler people who haven't read the book yet.)

Somebody doesn't know that this and 10 little indians are the same book. Whatever the title, it is a ridiculous farce, full of the usual Christie nonsense. Save your money and your brain.

This is one of my favorite books. The only books that beat it are the J.R.R. Tolkin books. Agetha has a way of confising you, but st8ill keep you reading her book, even though you don't know who it is. It is really great.

Intresting, enchanting, mystery!!!and The movie of it is just as excellent as the book!!

More like HAGATHA Christie...

I preferred the ending to the dramatization over the ending to the book. (Note: And Then There Were None is the same book as Ten Little Indians. Many of her books received names in the United States different from the names received in the UK.)

Good whodunit mystery. Great ending.

Agatha Christie cheats. She always has. No one gets all the clues so that you can solve the mystery with the sleuths. However, this doesn't stop her plots from being brilliant. She's the originator of the "isolated group" mystery. Just when you think you're safe, you aren't. Very tricky but effective.

This was teh first book that introduced me to murder mystery novels. Christie's style of stating how the murders were committed was amazing.