An Analysis of Christie's Masterpiece: And Then There Were None

“Ten Little Soldier Boys”, “One little soldier boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none” (Christie 35). Starting with ten and ending with none can never be a good sign. Ten strangers, with rarely anything in common, meet on an island thinking they are going to see an “old friend” or work for somebody, but soon find out they are only there to be murdered. Murder mysteries are some of the hardest books to write, but Agatha Christie finds a way to lock her readers in and never let them know who the real murderer is. And Then There were None (ATTWN) is, to many, still the best mystery murder novel, and it makes Christie the best-selling novelist of all time in the early 1940s. The novel receives an average rating of four and a half out of five stars by multiple sites like GoodReads and Barnes and Noble. Christie published this novel under Harper-Collins, and it is similar to Natasha Preston’s The Cellar. Both books share a suspenseful setting, and make the reader never want to put it down; however, Christie does a better job at hiding the psychopathic killer. Multiple people enjoy this book and recommend it to friends. Most of the people who decide to take the recommendation choose to pay

Her use of suspense and open-ended questions enhances her book always leaving the reader on edge. The only downfall that some readers may find is that it is very hard to figure out who the real murderer is, but anyone (especially young adults) who enjoy brain teasers and murder mysteries should read ATTWN and will quickly fall in love with it. And Then There Were None deserves all four and a half out of five stars it receives from multiple book stores and websites. A four and a half out of five stars is what it deserves, because there are almost no flaws throughout the whole book and it never seems boring. As Christie said, “Very few of us are what we