A mysterious recording played for the group accuses each person of having caused another person's death. And Then There Were None has, more or less, become the official standardized title.īut whatever its title, every serious mystery fan knows the novel's plot by heart: ten people, strangers to one another (except one pair of husband and wife), receive invitations to an island hideaway. The book was also published in English as Ten Little Indians on both sides of the Atlantic until people eventually came to see that title as racist as well. In the United States, more sensitive publishers changed the title to And Then There Were None note keeping in line with its allusion to the minstrel song, while many earlier foreign translations kept the original title, such as Dix petits nègres in French or Zehn kleine Negerlein in German. It was originally published in the UK as Ten Little Niggers, which was not shocking in 1930s Britain. The novel has been published under several different titles, as a direct result of Values Dissonance. The 19 versions are the only major adaptations that retain the original ending.
Screen adaptations include a 1945 film, a 1965 film (titled Ten Little Indians), a 1974 film, a 1987 Russian film, a 1989 film (titled Ten Little Indians), and a 2015 BBC miniseries.
The various film versions mostly use the play's ending or a variation thereof, which makes sense once you know the book's ending. It is also among the best-selling novels of all time in any genre.Īgatha Christie published the novel in 1939 and later adapted the story into a play (with an Adaptational Alternate Ending) in 1943. "Ladies and gentlemen! Silence, please! You are charged with the following indictments."Īnd Then There Were None is, without hyperbole, one of the most famous and popular murder mysteries ever written.
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