And then there were none - Agatha Christie

'Ten little soldier boys went out to dine;
One choked his little self, and then there were nine...'

This is the poem that And then there were none is based upon. The novel starts out with ten people of different ages and social classes being summoned to an island off the devonshire cost, all by friends of a friend or a new employer etc, but when they get there their host mr.Owen has not arrived and the island, other than them is compltely deserted. As they start to dissappear one by one it becomes apparent that the murderer is following the nursery rhyme (a copy of which is hung up in each of their rooms) and it becomes a race against time to discover who he/she is before they strike again...

This is my first full agatha christi novel, and apparently here best selling one to date (over 100 million copies, the world's best selling mystery and the seventh most popular book of all time. - wikipedia) It was recomended to my by a friend and is brilliant :D I've never really tried reading crime/mystery before because i've found it too chilling, however, christie delivers this with all the thrills and guessing but less of the chills :P (still didnt read before going to bed though :P) Its a bit hard to review because i dont want to give anything away, but it was rather amazing, it took me the first chapter or two to tell all the different characters apart, but their shriking numbers certainly helped with this :P

As far as guessing the ending goes... i failed, however, there were certain ideas id considered, but then dismissed, only to find out in the sumary that they were right after all, but the things id thought would prevent them had been considered and gone around a different way (if that makes sense, again, i dont want to give anything away) As it is my first i cannot compare it to other Christie novels, but it is said to be one of the best and most confounding. I'd say read it yourself and see :P its always fun guessing the endings, and frustrating when the different twists prove you wrong!