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Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (plays not included). Pages: 45. Chapters: And Then There Were None, Alibi, Spider's Web, Cards on the Table, The Hollow, The Mousetrap, Black Coffee, Akhnaton, Murder Is Easy, Personal Call, Witness for the Prosecution, Towards Zero, Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon, Butter in a Lordly Dish, Peril at End House, Love from a Stranger, Appointment with Death, The Unexpected Guest, Three Blind Mice, Murder at the Vicarage, The Yellow Iris, A Daughter's a Daughter, Chimneys, Verdict, Wasp's Nest, Fiddlers Three. Excerpt: And Then There Were None is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939 under the title Ten Little Niggers which was changed by Dodd, Mead and Company in January 1940 because of the presence of a racial epithet to the title And Then There Were None. 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". The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7 / 6) and the US edition at $2.00. The novel has also been published and filmed under the title Ten Little Indians. It is Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the best-selling books of all time (Publications International lists it as 7th best-selling). It has been adapted into several plays, films, and a video game. Justice Wargrave, Vera Claythorne, Philip Lombard, General Macarthur, Emily Brent, Anthony Marston, Doctor Armstrong and William Blore have been invited to a mansion on the fictional Soldier Island ("Niggers Island" in the original 1939 UK publication, "Indian Island" in the 1964 US publication), which is based upon Burgh Island off the coast of Devon. Upon arriving, they are told their hosts, a Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen (Ulick Norman Owen and Una Nancy Owen ), are currently away, but the guests will be attended to by Thomas and Ethel Rogers. Each guest finds in his or her room an odd bit of bric-a-brac and a framed copy of the nursery rhyme "Ten Little Soldiers" ("Niggers" or "Indians" in respective earlier editions) hanging on the wall. Before dinner that evening, the guests notice ten soldier boy figurines on the di