You get to my age, and you appreciate a good murder mystery. And nobody does them better than Agatha Christie. I had And Then There Were None on my list for a while and my library pulled through for me. It's a pulpy mass market paperback, and I also read it in hybrid format between that and an .epub version from Internet Archive. I much prefer to read my books digitally now, since I can have it on in the middle of night in bed, without disturbing my family, but there's nothing like cozing up on the couch alone at night with a book.
And Then There Were None was originally titled "Ten Little N*
****s", after a minstrel song from 1896, then toned down to Ten Little Indians, and finally to its current title, the last line of the song. Aside from the original title, there is no abject racism. That's just what the song was at that time. Reading it was really fun. I found it hard to put down and every chapter had something new and exciting to happen. For a book with 10 "main" characters, I didn't really lose track of people or where everyone was at (and it also helped that they were getting offed 1 by 1!).
****s", after a minstrel song from 1896, then toned down to Ten Little Indians, and finally to its current title, the last line of the song. Aside from the original title, there is no abject racism. That's just what the song was at that time. Reading it was really fun. I found it hard to put down and every chapter had something new and exciting to happen. For a book with 10 "main" characters, I didn't really lose track of people or where everyone was at (and it also helped that they were getting offed 1 by 1!).
Cribbed from my Goodreads account:
Classic for a reason! Taut without being terse, suspenseful without being horrifying. A story of the one-by-one murder of 10 otherwise upstanding citizens, if not for the crime/s that they directly or indirectly committed.
The epilogue neatly explains the murders in a satisfying, unexpected way and worth a re-read. I read this in hybrid format, between an .epub version from the Internet archive and paperback. Would not recommend the Internet archive; it's riddled with formatting errors and typos.
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