Agatha Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay in England. Her father
was called Frederick Miller so she was born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. She
was educated at home and studied singing and piano in Paris. In 1914 she married
Archibald Christie, but then World War I had broken out. Agatha worked as a
nurse in a Red Cross hospital in Torquay at that time and that experience was
useful later on. The book: I recently read a mystery book by the name of
"And Then They Were None" by Agatha Christie. I read this book because
a lot of people that read Agatha Christie’s books recommended them to me and
because I like mystery stories. One of the mysteries to this book was, of
course, who killed all of the innocent people. Another mystery was that every
time another person was killed a little Indian figure would disappear from the
edges of a serving plate. SUMMARY: Ten people are invited to an island, called
"Indian Island", by letters that were signed by people they had met
before. When they got to the island, they found out that their host, U.N.Owen,
had not arrived yet. At dinner, they heard a voice, accusing each of them of a
murder, which they were all guilty of. After one of them is killed, according to
the first verse of a poem that is framed above each of their beds called
"Ten Little Indians", they figure out that the murderer is one of
them! As more people are killed off, one by one, the group narrows the suspect
list down, until only one is left alive but she figured that she would never get
off the island anyway, and she hung herself from the ceiling by putting a noose
around her neck and kicking the chair away on which she was standing, but she
was not the killer. SETTING: In "And Then There Where None" by Agatha
Christie, they didn’t say when it took place, but I wouldn’t be surprised
that it was in the 1900’s because that’s when she wrote it. It was on an
island in the middle of the ocean. You couldn’t see any other land that
surrounded it because it was really in the middle of nowhere! The general
atmosphere was dark because there was a lot of trees and the ocean was nice but
cold. They didn’t exactly say where it was located, but I’m pretty sure it
was in the Indian Ocean because they said it was called "Indian
Island"! ANALYSIS: I really thought that this mystery story was very well
written, and, in that case, very interesting! What I learned about this story is
that you should never go somewhere with people you don’t really know and like
I said before: " Ten people are invited to an island, called "Indian
Island", by letters that were signed by people they had met before". I
would never go somewhere far away with people I just met! This is a mystery
story so anything can happen, which I know now! It has a lot of changing
meanings and it’s a very doubtful story. You never know what is going to
happen or how it’s going to finish! It’s a very invented story(I think!) and
the ideas of the author are almost impossible to happen in reel life, but I
guess that’s what makes the story interesting! CONCLUSION: I really enjoyed
this book and thought it to be entertaining. It was a hard book to put down and
I read about half of the book in one day because it was so interesting. And
since it is a mystery, I thought I knew exactly what was going to happen, but it
had a strange twist right towards the end. I really enjoyed that all the murders
where done exactly how the famous poem "Ten Little Indians" said,
which reads: "Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his self
and then there were nine. Nine Indian boys sat up very late; One overslept
himself then there were eight. Eight Indian boys traveling in Devon; One said
he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven Indian boys chopping up sticks; One
chopped himself in halves then there were six. Six Indian boys playing with a
hive; A bumble-bee stung one then there were five. Five Indian boys going in for
law; One got in Chancery then there were four. Four Indian boys going out to
sea; A red herring swallowed one then there were three. Three Indian boys
walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one then there were two. Two Indian boys
sitting in the sun; One got all frizzled up then there was one. One Indian boy
left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none." I
would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes a good mystery.

Bibliography
"And Then There Were None"; May 1995; Berkley Pub Group; Reissue
edition (May 1995); 208 pages.