Book summary of And then There Were None?
Posted on August 29th, 2007 by admin
Jen Kimber asked:
Summarize the entire book of “And Then There Were None” in 5-7 sentences. If you don’t know do you know of a website I can go to, because I need this by midnight.
Summarize the entire book of “And Then There Were None” in 5-7 sentences. If you don’t know do you know of a website I can go to, because I need this by midnight.
Thanks
Question posted courtesy of: Greg Schmigel’s Book Reviews
Eight people receive an invitation to an island estate. In fact they were each tricked into going to the island. When they get there, they find only a butler and his wife; the hosts aren’t present. At dinner they find ten figures of soldiers; later they are informed that all ten are guilty of murder but were never punished for it. Then, one by one, the people begin to die as per the old poem Ten Little Indians (i.e., Ten Little Soldier Boys). There is no way to leave the island until the boat that brings supplies comes back. In essence, all ten are trapped, and a murderer is on the loose.
You might want to check out Sparknotes for more information: and Wikipedia. This is a really excellent mystery story. I think it’s one of the best I’ve ever read.
I hope that helps.
***Addition: I believe T is right – the figures were Indians not soldiers. It’s the poem that has several versions; one of which has Indians and another soldiers and a third is not so nice.
ck1 has got it
Eight people are invited to an island that a famous movie star millionaire is said to have purchased. The one thing all these misfits have in common is that they are guilty of a crime that the law could not punish (one woman is guilty of murdering a child due to neglecting to watch him properly, etc.). They end up in a room together on this island in which there are ten people (they find the butler and his wife: there are no hosts) and they hear a message on a record player saying that none will outlive the weekend. There is a poem called ten little indians that hinted at how each was going to die, and ten porcelean figures on the dining room table which dissapear with each death. There are no people on the island but them, so one of them must be the murderer, leading to suspicion and chaos. It has an ambiguous ending, in which everyone is found dead. Only when a letter in a bottle reaches Scottland yard in the epilouge (it’s a british book)do you find out who is responsible (it was the judge, the leader who worked avidly to find the culprit, who faked his death so there were two people left).
Duckie is absolutely correct!!
ck1 has one detail wrong, they were figures of indians on the table instead of soldiers.