Identity In And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie

You and nine total strangers have been sent to an island that nobody has ever been to. You and the nine other guests sit down at the table in the dining room of the house on the island to eat dinner, then suddenly you and the guests have been convicted of murder. You remember the deed that has been done to this individual that you have murdered. You and the other nine begin to deny and say that the accusations are false. In the novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie the novel introduced ten strangers who don’t know each other get sent to an island called “Soldier Island” Here all of the ten guests were invited by Mr. or Mrs. Owens, they were sent here for reasons depending on the letter they received. On the first night, the guests have dinner together, they enjoy their time before all of them get accused of murder by a recording. Throughout the novel, there are several clues to the killer's identity: Justice Wargrave being calm throughout the novel, Wargrave’s death being fake, and Lombard's gun found in Wargrave’s room instead of the stairs where Vera had left it.

This is very suspicious because the rest of the guests are freaking out because people are dying on the island and they don’t know if they are next. Justice Wargrave said, “I must keep my head…I must keep my head…If only I keep my head…It’s all perfectly clear—all worked out. But nobody must suspect. It may do the trick. It must! Which one? That’s the question—which one? I think—yes, I rather think—yes—him” (214). This quote proves that Wargrave needs to keep his calm so the others won’t have any suspicion on him that he’s the one murdering these people to deal with justice. However, there are several hints leading to the killer's identity later in the