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... to begin with...
Given that you are also allowing the reader to work out the protagonist, I guess that Agatha Christie's And Then there Were None sort of counts - it's not quite the usual crime novel problem of picking a living murderer after all. #51 And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, 228 pages
Total Pages = 16609
This was a fun, quick read. ... I've read so far stays with me, and I consider that to be a good thing. :)
>67 GeorgiaDawn, I love that book! I think And Then There Were None is my favorite Agatha Christie book, although I do love Poirot.
>73 highland65, I wish I could lay my hands on all of Ngaio Marsh's books so ... I just started And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. ... Hodgson Burnett
76. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
77. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
78. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie- No I didn't figure it out.
79. Holes by Louis Sachar- Just like the movie, loved them both.
80. The Last Time They ... ... Music by Zoran Zivkovic (translated by Alice Copple-Tosic)
24. The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories by John Biguenet
25. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
26. The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg
27. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Ye ... re Agatha Christie--for a different style of Christie mystery I recommend you try And Then There Were None. This is a novel without either of her famous dectevie characters but a fascinating psychological study. It is one of my favorites of her books. Yes, that was the ending that Agatha Christie wrote for the stage version of Ten Little Indians (aka And then there were none). (See The Mousetrap and other plays, which contains the playscript of this and other plays by Agatha.)
(And I'm not particularly fond of that ending either, ... Ten Little Indians. Hooked me good, it did. I know And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie is like that. It is the only Christie I have read, but I really enjoyed it. And then there were none, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder on the Nile, Evil under the Sun for example, but I really could not suggest one over the other because I like them all!
:-))
21 may 2008 (book 36)
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
Had to take a break from what I am reading at the moment because it is going so s l o w l y.. Thought it was a good day to curl up with a new-to-mystery and devour it. Couldn't put it down. Kept trying to be clever enough ... 1.And Then There Were None
2.To Have And Have Not
3.Pride and Prejudice
9.The Soul Thief
10.Dealing With Dragons
11.Dragon Prince
15.Of Mice and Men
16.Anna and the King of Siam
18.A Brief History of Time
21.To Kill a Mockingbird
24.Don Quixote
28.the Decline and Fa ... And Then There Were  ... of the Highly Improbable. (Sadly, the only copy of King Leopold's Ghost had JUST been checked out!) I also grabbed And Then There Were None for some light reading at work. Will I get them all read before they're due? Nobody knows...
ETA: Touchstones are being jerks Anna the Adventuress
And Then There Were None
All Around the Town
And Both Were Young
Alice in Wonderland ... Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie ... ris
Good Poems edited by Garrison Keillor
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling
Sons and Lovers DH Lawrence
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters ... while the people were all double-jointed and quite different from what we generally think of as human beings.
15) And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie--I'm not a big fan of mysteries, but I thought I should at least check this one out. It didn't really convert me, and I ... ... old fashioned "values" found in the books.
She will be very excited that LT gave her the go ahead!
#5 Quartzite, And then there were none was my favorite Christie mystery.
Thanks everyone.
I was 12 when I read my first and became a lifelong fan. Then There Were None, which I read at about 12 or 13, did give me a nightmare. 39. - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie considered one of her best, if not the best. Good read. Had me stumped. Also published as Ten Little Indians. ... short stories (especially The Problem of Cell 13), The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. ... free-for-all.
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
The Secret History
1984
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
And Then There Were None
To Kill A Mockingbird
His Dark Materials
Good Omens
From Russia With Love
Small Gods
Murder in Mesopotamia
Harry Potter and the ... ... of the rings - 3 lists
Pride and Prejudice - 3 lists
The secret history - 2 lists
Nineteen eighty four - 2 lsits
And then there were none - 2 lists
To kill a mockingbird - 2 lists
Jane Eyre - 2 lists
The poisonwood bible - 2 lists
Catch 22 - 2 lists
Adding
The bible ... ... of the rings - 3 lists
Pride and Prejudice - 3 lists
The secret histroy - 2 lists
Nineteen eighty four - 2 lsits
And then there were none - 2 lists
To kill a mockingbird - 2 lists
Jane Eyre - 2 lists
The poisonwood bible - 2 lists
Catch 22 - 2 lists
The rest of the ... ... structured her mysteries around an organising device or principle, a sort of "murder by numbers" idea: ABC Murders and And Then There Were None and a lot of her titles also used numbers: 13 at Dinner One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Murder in Three Acts etc. ... an
It, Stephen King
Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
And then there were none, Agatha Christie
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
Atonement, Ian McEwan
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Animal Farm, George Orwell
... shy and start with my own list, if that's okay
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
The Secret History
1984
And Then There Were None
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
From Russia With Love
Good Omens
To Kill A Mockingbird
His Dark Materials
... Hawkins
8. You Suck: A love Story This book did not need to be written.
9. Heartsick
10. Dime Store Magic
11. And then there were none
12. Sagittarius is Bleeding: Battlestar Galactica 3 written by Peter David who I love, and Battlestare which I love, I thought it must be ... And then there were none by Agatha Christie A few from my library:
And then there were none
Anything considered
The ape who guards the balance
Armour wherein he trusted
The birds fall down
The Brontes went to Woolworths
Cheerfulness breaks in
Consider this, Senora
Cry, the beloved country
Daddy was a number ... I picked up Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein and And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 48. Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
49. The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
50. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Of these, only the last one deserves a response. It was simply wonderful. A bit too much feel-goodery about the wonders of Italy and its ... ... I love Agatha Christie. I've liked everything I've read of hers, but a few of my favorites would be Towards Zero, And Then There Were None, and The Man in the Brown Suit.
If you enjoy the classics, I'd highly recommend anything by Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Jane Auste ... ... Vicarage
4. Sleeping Murder
5. Absent in the Spring
6. What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw
7. Postern of Fate
8. And Then There Were None ... rage
4. Sleeping Murder
5. Absent in the Spring
6. What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw - finished
7. Postern of Fate
8. And Then There Were None
Short Story Collections
1. The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
2. The O. Henry Prize Winners - 2007 - finished
3. The Best Ame ... And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie ... Flies - William Golding
44. Dry: A Memoir - Augusten Burroughs
45. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
46. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
47. The Case for Christianity - C.S. Lewis
48. A Double Life - Louisa May Alcott
49. Break No Bones - Kathy Reichs
50. ... I have been thinking about this for days.
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie, it's perfectly executed (hee) and the only one of her books that deeply chilled me. A masterpiece of suspense.
Killing Critics - Carol O'Connell. Gruesome, twisted, memorable characterizations, Mallory, ... ...
Mean Streets -- Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett
Superhuman Psycho -- Red Dragon Thomas Harris
Old Dark House -- And Then There Were None Agatha Christie
The winner -- one book that seems to fit (admittedly with some effort) in all the above categories:
The Sign of Four Arth ... And Then There Were None (also Ten Little Indians) by Agatha Christie The Eleventh Hour: a Curious Mystery by Graeme Base
Ten Little Indians (also known as And Then There Were None) by Agatha Christie The 158 pound Marriage by John Irving
And Then Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (does "none" count)
Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South by Ann Rinaldi
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Eight Cousins ... The 158 pound Marriage by John Irving
And Then Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (does "none" count)
Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South by Ann Rinaldi
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Eight Cousins ... Street of No Return by David Goodis
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
Not Quite Dead Enough by Rex Stout
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace ... and vocal cheerleading and history by Eric M. Van.
334. Thomas Disch
Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll
And Then There Were None. Agatha Christie
Arslan. M. J. Engh
Beauty. Robin McKinley
The Book of the New Sun.* Gene Wolfe
The Book of Knights. Y ... ... some Good Books
Down The rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery
The City of Ember
The Haunting Of Alaizabel Cray
And Then There Were none Here are some books that I think are great
Faerie Wars
The City Of Ember
Down The Rabbit Hole
And Then There Were None 18. Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
19. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
20. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie and Doyle's The Hounds of the Baskervilles-Both great stormy night reads. A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
See Delphi and Die by Lindsey Davis
After the Funeral by Agatha Christie 21 >I do enjoy a good Christie book but I've never forgotten 'And then there were none'
After Agatha I think my next favorite mystery author would be Peter Tremayne and maybe Rex Stout but they have a set of characters to follow so individual mysteries have less of an impact. Ten little Indians aka And then there were none by Agatha Christie I also really liked the ending in water for elephants. I'll add that Agatha Christie's And then there were none had one of my favorite endings. I read it when I was very young and it was so deliciously dark.
I saw the play, Ten Little Indians (same story, different name) recently and was so ... In Cold Blood, hands down.
Runners-up:
The Girl Next Door
And Then There Were None ... Clam, Christies are quick, easy reads, so good experiments.
Start with the Classic Murder on the Orient Express, then And Then There Were None and The ABC Murders. Try a few more Hercules Poirots, especially the ones with his sometimes sidekick, Hastings like The Mysterious Affair at Sty ... ... which would've put me off her for life if I'd started with them) but a lot of her books are really good. My favourites are And Then There Were None The Secret Adversary, and Death Comes as the End. Her autobiography was also really good. I read Agatha Christie voraciously when I was in high school, but not after that. That said, she wrote some classics: And Then There Were None is English country-house mystery personified. Murder on the Orient Express is another often-mentioned one.
If you want to try contemporary (well ... And Then There Were None is one of Christie's absolute classics. She changed the ending for the stageplay version (as she did, in fact, change most of her adaptations to stage), but I like the book better. As someone who's read - eh - maybe 2/3s of her output, now, I would highly recommend The Mu ... The Haunting of Hill House 246 pages
And Then There Were None 264 pages
WHY did I wait so long to read these classics?! If you're like me and have been putting them off, definitely get them as soon as you can!
Granted, it took me a little bit to get into Hill House. My attention span ... ...
The Menstruating Mall by Carlton Mellick III
Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
The Witches by Roald Dahl
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
I had decided not to get any more credit cards a long time ago. I broke down and got the Amazon credit card with this ... ... Musketeers
Big Four
The Quintessential World of Darkness
Rainbow Six
The Seven Deadlies or The Seventh Gate
And Then There Were None aka ten little indians
A Dozen Black Roses
The Thirteen Problems
An Ensuing Evil and Others: Fourteen Historical Mysteries
Hemlock at Ve ... ...
Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors
How I Live Now
Now reading:
The Devil in the White City for my book group
And Then There Were None (audiobook)
...
Now reading:
* Curry: A Tale of Cooks & Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham
* How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
* And Then There Were None (audiobook) by Agatha Christie
... The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Murder at the Vicarage and possibly Murder on the Orient Express, as well as And Then there were None Christie: And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, Nemesis
Sayers: early one - Whose Body?, late one - Busman's Honeymoon I'd go with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd as her best work, but I wouldn't put up a serious argument against And Then There Were None. And I agree - it's a chilling scenario she created there. Agatha Christie's Then There Were None gave me nightmares the first time I read it and I still think its pretty scary. ... soon caught on and appears numerous times in the US press from that date onward. Here's an early example, in a story about then emerging novelist, Danielle Steel, from the Syracuse Herald Journal, New York, 1983:
"I think of romance novels as kind of bodice rippers, Steel says."
The genre ... I'm almost finished with Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. I'm also reading Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr.
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