And Then There Were None

书名：And Then There Were None
作者：AgathaChristie
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ISBN：9780007136834
出版社：Harper
出版时间：2003-03-03
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：224
豆瓣评分： 8.9

书籍简介：

And Then There Were None is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie. In the novel, ten people, who have previously been complicit in the deaths of others but have escaped notice or punishment, are tricked into coming onto an island. Even though the guests are the only people on the island, they are all mysteriously murdered one by one, in a manner paralleling, inexorably and sometimes grotesquely, the old nursery rhyme, "Ten Little Niggers".

作者简介：

Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.

Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse; later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison. During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels.

Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, came out in 1920. During her first marriage, Agatha published six novels, a collection of short stories, and a number of short stories in magazines.

In late 1926, Agatha's husband, Archie, revealed that he was in love with another woman, Nancy Neele, and wanted a divorce. On 8 December 1926 the couple quarreled, and Archie Christie left their house, Styles, in Sunningdale, Berkshire, to spend the weekend with his mistress at Godalming, Surrey. That same evening Agatha disappeared from her home, leaving behind a letter for her secretary saying that she was going to Yorkshire. Her disappearance caused an outcry from the public, many of whom were admirers of her novels. Despite a massive manhunt, she was not found for eleven days.

In 1930, Christie married archaeologist Max Mallowan (Sir Max from 1968) after joining him in an archaeological dig. Their marriage was especially happy in the early years and remained so until Christie's death in 1976.

Christie frequently used familiar settings for her stories. Christie's travels with Mallowan contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East. Other novels (such as And Then There Were None) were set in and around Torquay, where she was born. Christie's 1934 novel Murder on the Orient Express was written in the Hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, the southern terminus of the railway. The hotel maintains Christie's room as a memorial to the author. The Greenway Estate in Devon, acquired by the couple as a summer residence in 1938, is now in the care of the National Trust.

Christie often stayed at Abney Hall in Cheshire, which was owned by her brother-in-law, James Watts. She based at least two of her stories on the hall: the short story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, and the novel After the Funeral. Abney Hall became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all the servants and grandeur which have been woven into her plots.

To honour her many literary works, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1956 New Year Honours. The next year, she became the President of the Detection Club.

书友短评：

@ Y 首先要感谢嘟总的赠书！我先用几百个日夜读了十几页，然后上个三天班读完了，红红火火恍恍惚惚。Most intriguing, I would say. 过程中一边觉汗毛直立一边desperately tasting the plot，虽英语水平不大行，翻了不少字典，还是欲罢不能。有的写作用词就得很考究！读推理小说的时候我总习惯带入现场思考，所以常觉很吓人。此书的推理设计还是颇弱了些：尤其在某一关键节点处，严格根据描述此时所有人其实都有不在场证明，以至于我百思不得其解反复前后翻感觉漏了什么。然书中角色一顿分析共同得出的结论是惊惧、互相怀疑与推诿。And It finally turned out to be a magic show! No wonder! 可以理解，但确实不够精妙呀！ @ 贰炮重生版 终于草草读完 @ momo 第16本原版书，23.10.4-23.10.9读完。好看，很难想象是1939年发表的小说，可读性非常强。2015BBCmini剧基本符合小说，但加入的Vera和Lombard之间的爱情有点尬，以及原著里Hugo明明是暗示了Vera淹死小男孩。更喜欢原著。（19.3.14读中文原著，23.10.4看mini剧）。

　　Agatha Christie- HarperCollins 2003(共83册)，这套丛书还有《Cat Among the Pigeons》《The Man in the Brown Suit》《Three Act Tragedy》《Hickory Dickory Dock》《The Unexpected Guest》等。

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