Introducing the Best Mistery novel of all Times: And Then There Were None

Introduction
And Then There Were None has a spontaneous mood that lures the readers to the very last 275th page of the book. It takes place in a lonely island named Indian Island, with 10 people who don’t know anything about each other. They have been invited to a mansion on the island that was believed to be owned privately by U. N. Owen. Since they are complete strangers to one another, they are rather ponderous and uncomfortable; especially when they’ve found out about one another’s wicked past. But this is where it gets the readers breathtaking. This book, And Then There Were None carries a thrill on every page, and you will not regret the moment you have held to read this phenomenal piece of mystery.

Crime
Every crime is unacceptable, but this one is inhumane. This murderer has planned to kill not only one, but a lot of innocent human beings. The criminal gives everyone the goose bumps, and the devastating fear that makes you impossible to sleep comfortably. He knew very strongly the lust to kill; he felt his desire of a theatrical, and a stupendous murder. So he used his imagination. He fit his murder to a nursery rhyme, “Ten Little Indians” and killed the victims he had in mind just the way the Indians were gone in the poem:

Ten little Indian boys went out to dine;

One choked his little self and then there were nine.

Nine little Indian boys sat up very late;

One overslept himself and then there were eight.

Eight little Indian boys traveling in

Devon;

One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.

Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks

One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.

Six little Indian boys playing with a hive;

A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.

Five little Indian boys going in for law;

One got in Chancery and then there were four.

Four little Indian boys going out to sea;

A

red herring swallowed one and then there were three.

Three little Indian boys walking in the zoo;

A big bear hugged one and then there were two.

Two Little Indian boys sitting in the sun;

One got frizzled up and then there was one.

One little Indian boy left all alone;

He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

Every single guest on the Indian Island was marked for murder. They were the ten little Indians.

Detectives/Suspects/Victims
The most intriguing thing about this book is that all the 10 guests are detectives/suspects/victims in some sort. This is quite unique because those three are extremely different;

Detective: An investigator looking for and gathering clues.
Suspect: A person who is suspected of a crime.
Victim: Someone who is harmed or suffers some loss

The 10 guests are: Judge Lawrence Wargrave, Vera Claythorne, Philip Lombard, Dr. Edward George Armstrong, William Henry Blore, Emily Brent, Thomas Rogers, Ethel Rogers, General John Gordon Macarthur, and Anthony Marston. When first few of them are murdered, the rest suspects U. N. Owen for the crime. But they find out that they are all alone in the island, Owen was nowhere to be in sight. They conclude that the murderer is among themselves. Some of the guests work together as detectives, bringing all the clues together, trying to solve the puzzle (there are also two inspectors in the epilogue who try to solve the mystery). But since they know that they there’s a cruel murderer among them, they suspect each other in their minds, always so very careful and curious about who the next victim would be. As it says on the back cover of And Then There Were None: “For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. And only the dead are above suspicion.

Clues
Without clues, a crime is unsolvable. That doesn’t mean that if there are clues, the crime will be solved. It’s feasible, but also very challenging. In And Then There Were None, the murderer does not reveal until the very last pages of the book, after the epilogue. The epilogue, however, contains the largest clue of the book. Of course there are some other mystical clues like on page 95-96, Mr. Rogers tells Armstrong that two of the ten little china figures on the table are missing. There were 2 people murdered so far by that part of the book. Every time a person was murdered, one of the little statues disappeared. Those china figures were the countdowns of the 10 victims. That is one of the dastard things that the murderer had done. This criminal did an amazingly cunning job not leaving the clues. In fact, the case of the 10 dead Indians is left unsolved at the end of the story. But don’t worry, you’ll find out who the murderer is when you read the book.

Red Herring
A red herring is a fish. But in mysteries, they are something different. They are the distraction for the readers, to keep them away from finding out the solution of the mystery until the very end. Sounds mean? But it makes the story even more exciting and curious. The red herrings in And Then There Were None are quite in pattern. The guests suspect a person among themselves as the murderer, then the next thing they find the suspect killed. There were some other red herrings involving individual characters such as when Vera screamed at a piece of seaweed, thinking it was a person. Red herrings can be random, not making sense and will throw the readers off, but they do make great cliff-hangers.