The suspense and surprise in And Then There Were None According to Alewyn, the essential features of a well-written murder mystery should be the suspense and surprise (184). Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None is a murder mystery, which is still continually complimented by different readers and has been adapted many times for television and for film because she through characters and characterization, plot, and setting makes this detective story fully combine the suspense and surprise. Characters can be defined as any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work, each with its own development and function (Abrams 45). Characterization meant to establish the distinctive characters (Abrams 47). Plot is the series of events that form the story of a novel, play, and film (Abrams 294). Last, the setting is the context in which the story takes place, which includes the time, the place, and the social environment (Abrams 363). I will show the suspense and surprise through analyzing characters and characterization, plot, and setting and using specific textual evidence from this fiction to prove. It is significant that characters and characterization in a well-written murder mystery (Alewyn 233). In And Then There Were no None, Agatha describes ten characters through their appealing, acting, talking, thoughts, feelings, and responsiveness to events to show different occupation background and social status. For example, “Mrs. Rogers had a flat monotonous voice…What