And Then There Were None was first published in 1939 in Great Britain and was published a few months later in the United States in January of 1940. It is Agatha Christie's bestselling novel. Over 100 million copies have been printed and it remains one of the top ten best selling books of all time. It has been made into several films and a play. The novel follows the plights of ten characters as a Mr. U.N. Owen summons them to the mysterious Indian Island. As each guest begins to die in suspect ways, each guest realizes that they have been summoned to the island by a mad man intent on killing them all.
A gramophone recording reveals that each of the characters in the novel was party to...