And Then There Were None: The World’S Favourite Agatha Christie Book [Tv Tie-In Edition]
The book that toppedthe international online poll held in Agatha Christie’s 125th birthday year todiscover which of her 80 crime books was the world’s favourite.1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers areinvited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off fromthe mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriouslyabsent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. When one of the party diessuddenly they realise they may be harbouring a murderer among their number.The 10 strangers include a reckless playboy, a troubled Harley Street doctor, aformidable judge, an uncouth detective, an unscrupulous mercenary, aGod-fearing spinster, two restless servants, a highly decorated general and ananxious secretary. One by one they are picked off. Who will survive? And who isthe killer? Copies of an ominous nursery rhyme hang in each room, the murdersmimicking the awful fates of its ‘Ten Little Soldier Boys’.