Why And Then There Were None By Vera Claythorne Murder?

The book, “And Then There Were None,” puts a mysterious twist on committing murders. Ten people were invited to Indian Island from a Mr. Owen, and they were all there for different reasons, they thought. Everyone on the island has in some way been involved with a murder at some point in time. Although, not all of the people on the island intentionally committed a terrible murder. Once the victims figure out that the killer is one of them; everyone scrambles to find out if there is a pattern in the murders. It’s quite evident that there is a specific order to the murders, a reason for the order, and a precise fit to the previous murders that each one of them committed. The order of the murders is gut wrenching. The first person to be murdered on the island is Anthony Marston, and ironically Vera Claythorne is the last to die. The specific order of the murders goes

The people that were the most involved with the murders had to painstakingly stay on the island the longest. Anthony Marston died first because the murder he committed was accidental and unintentional. He died by being poisoned; so his death wasn’t as harsh as some of the others because he was the least involved. Vera Claythorne intentionally murdered Cyril Hamilton by letting him drown. She died last, and her mind was messed with the most out of all of the people on the island. She hung herself because she went crazy and couldn’t handle the guilt anymore. “To see a wretched criminal squirming in the dock, suffering the tortures of the damned, as his doom came slowly and slowly nearer, was to me an exquisite pleasure” (Christie 262). The murderer enjoys seeing people suffer. The real murderer of everyone on the island, Justice Wargrave, wanted the ones who committed the worst crime to suffer the most. In the end everyone ends up dying because they all did something terrible that they law couldn’t