Im Done!!! Book Summary

I just finished reading the book, “And The There Were None”, by Agatha Christie and I have to say that it was one of my favorite books of all time. I don’t really books (or reading) but this book really drew me in and made me want to read more. In this post I am going to be giving a summary as well as my thought as about the authors writing craft and technique (THIS WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS!! Skip to 3^rd paragraph if you don’t want spoilers)

            In the beginning of the book, 8 normal people are invited to a party on a mysterious party. None of the characters know who the host is or why he invited them. When they got there, the only other people there were the butler, and the butlers wife. So in total there are 10 people on the island/in the house. A nursery rhyme is hung up above each person’s bed, it is called “Ten Little Indian Boys”. This nursery rhyme comes into play later in the book. People start to die in unusual ways. The deaths (murders) follow the nursery rhyme (look at my previous blog post to see the poem) perfectly. Also as each person dies a little clay doll is removed from the middle if the dining room table, there were ten to start but the number decreases every time someone dies. When there is only 5 people left, they decide to set out and look for this cereal killer, but they cant find anyone else on the island. So they are left to assume that someone among them is the killer. More people start to die and no one knows who is doing it. Eventually there is only 2 people left, they go out and try to sine the SOS signal using a mirror, one of them turns on the other and shoots them with a pistol, then the remaining survivor proceeds to hang themselves, fulfilling the last line of the poem, “One little Indian boy left all alone: he went and hanged himself, and then there were none. A group of boy scouts spotted there signal and told the police. A couple days after the final murder, the police show up and investigate the crime scene. They found the girl hanging from the ceiling but there was no chair near her to step up on, and she couldn’t have kicked it away because the only chair left in the room was put neatly back under the desk. They come to the conclusion that someone else had to have put it back. A few days later a bottle washes up on shore with a note inside of it. The author is Lawrence Wargrave, one of the houseguests. He goes on to explain how he was always intrigued by death ever since he was a little boy, and that is why he plotted the whole thing. He was the 6^th one to die but it turns out that he faked his own death so that he would not get caught. He then proceeds to explain how he did the whole thing, but that is for me to know and for you to read about.

            I really enjoyed the authors writing craft, as well as the amount of characterization he incorporated throughout the story. It really educated me on the characters personalities and natural tendencies. I really recommend that you read this book if you like mysterious/sinister murder type books that have a lot of twists and always leave you wanting to read more. As for the next book I will be reading, I haven’t picked it out yet, but it probably be one of Agatha Christie’s books.