And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie

Mystery is considered a young form of literature because it was introduced into the literary words two hundred years ago and is still under development. This genre came about when cities and towns realized that a true police force was needed to solve crimes quickly and efficiently, and thus mystery was born into novels. Famous writers such as Edgar Allen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle led the mystery movement. Poe is credited with the mystery and crime novels that have been read by millions, with writing focused primarily upon the intellectual reality rather than aesthetics of the situation. Doyle arrived in the late nineteenth century, and with him he brought a writing style unlike any other. This writing style was the art of turning

With any mystery novel written during the Golden Age, authors generally stuck to a mystery containing “a small village setting, a hero with faintly aristocratic family connections, a plethora of red herrings and a tendency to commit homicide with a sterling silver letter openers and poisons imported from Paraguay” (Pope-Hennessy). Christie became synonymous with this style of writing. In Christie’s novel, And Then There Were None, she follows the Golden Age rubric for mystery novels. This rubric often, but not always entailed “a prescribed format with little or no variation” (Pope-Hennessy). By following this rubric, Christie also challenges the readers deductive and problem-solving powers with her enchanting stories about crime and murder. However, Christie was not the only mystery author to write during the Golden Age, as Doyle also wrote in this era. Doyle’s stories were featured in the early stages of the Golden Age, however they still followed the general guidelines seen in Christie and other mystery writers’ works. Doyle’s, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is a prime example of the rubric being followed, as the story follows the enigmatic detective through all of his adventures and many of the cases seen throughout novel have this “distinctive style and […] flair for deducing clues”