This may have been the first Agatha Christie I ever read.

As a Reader’s Digest Condensed Book back when I was a kid.

Quite groundbreaking as one of the first serial killer stories.

10 people on an island. No way to leave.

One by one they are murdered in this spooky house.

Like most upper middle class Brits of her age, Agatha was somewhat racist. And even more antisemitic.

She got better over the decades, eventually casting homosexuals in positive roles. Surprisingly, the famously conservative old lady even voted to join the EU.

It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1939, as Ten Little Niggers,^[3] after an 1869 minstrel song which serves as a major plot element. The US edition was released i 1940 with the title And Then There Were None, taken from the last five words of the song.

The book is the world’s best-selling mystery, and with over 100 million copies sold is one of the best-selling books of all time. 

While reading the book, I simultaneously watched the 2015 mystery thriller television serial that was first broadcast on BBC One ➙ And Then There Were None.

Quite good.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.