Ten Little Soldier Boys By Agatha Christie

a mystery novel by Agatha Christie
• She describes it as the most difficult book she has ever written
• First published in the United Kingdom by Collins Crime Club on November 6th, 1939
• It was first called Ten Little Niggers
• The major plot point is the British song, “Ten Little Soldier Boys.”
• In the novel, ten people are enticed into coming to an island for different reasons
• All ten people have in some way been involved in the deaths of other people but have not had consequences yet
• The first night there, after dinner, a gramophone plays a voice that says that all 10 guests are charged with their “crimes” and that they have been brought to the island to pay for their actions
• The ten people are the only people on the island and they

U. N. Owen. After Vera gets ahold of Lombard’s gun, she shoots him through the heart, killing him instantly. (one shot the other, and then there was one)

• Vera, relieved that the killer is killed, returns to the house. Still filled with shock, and in a disoriented state, she returns to her room… only to find a hanging noose and chair arranged for her. Feeling remorse for killing Lombard and letting a boy drown when she was a governess, she places the noose around her neck and kicks the chair out from under her feet. (He went and hanged himself and then there were none)

• In the epilogue, an investigating police officer discusses the mystery of Soldier Island with his Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard. The two investigators were thoroughly confounded by the mystery, with no explanation as to why there were ten dead people on Soldier

Rogers. After beating General Macarthur and Mr. Rogers, the killer used the remaining chloral hydrate as a sedative in Miss Brent’s coffee before injecting her with cyanide. Then he used Dr. Armstrong, who trusted the judge not to be the killer, so that when he pretended to be “Shot” in the head for the doctor to tell the others that he was dead. That night when he planned to meet with the doctor to figure out the next plan, he pushed the doctor off a cliff to his death. After dropping a heavy clock on Blore, he correctly guessed that Vera would kill Lombard, mistaking him for the killer. He then set up the noose and chair in her room, guessing that she would kill herself after all of her remorse for killing two people, which she