When it’s revealed that each person has been brought to the island under false pretenses and instead are being made to own up to previous murders they are each charged with committing, things get more interesting for sure. The first time I read “And Then There Were None” 20 years ago I was chillingly mesmerized by its ingeniously dark plot, which concerned ten strangers (eight guests and two servants) who had gathered together in a large mansion on an isolated island by a mysterious host whom no one had met and referred to only as U.N. ![]() ![]() Titles such as Clue, Identity, Devil, Harper’s Island, and even a special episode of Family Guy owe so much to Christie’s novel. After all, the novel has served as one of the most instrumental blueprints for the classic whodunnit where characters are picked off one by one. When I had heard that one of my favorite novels of all time, “And Then There Were None” (also known as “Ten Little Indians”) by Agatha Christie, was finally being revisited as a top-scale miniseries with acclaimed actors and lavish production values, I couldn’t have been more ecstatic.
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