Book #89 |
Book: And Then There Were None | Author: Agatha Christie | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Kindle |
Pages: 258 | Duration: 09/25/25 – 10/07/25 (13 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★☆ | Genres: fiction, mystery, crime, thriller, classics, Agatha Christie | ||
| 📕10-word summary: All 10 people on an island die one by one. 🖌6-word review: Intricate plot seems implausible at times. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “When a man’s neck’s in danger, he doesn’t stop to think too much about sentiment.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: contadini, cairngorm, iniquitous, pukka sahib, desultory, truncheon, cosh, sangfroid, quietus, wangle | |||
| Description:* First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they’re unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion. When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: It took me 13 days to read this book, because for 10 of them I was in New York City seeing plays for 3 days, and then on a New England & Canada cruise for 7 days. Agatha Christie said this was her most difficult book to write. I struggled with it a little, probably because I was usually distracted while reading it, and there were huge gaps in time (sometimes days) before I picked it up again. I liked that the deaths were centered around a nursery rhyme, but it was ambiguous enough that it didn’t really help you figure out how and who was going to be killed next, but after they were dead, it made sense in retrospect. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
