And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, was about ten people chosen to go on an Island vacation. Their host (or hostess) is unknown. AKA U.N. Owen. One by one the guests die off in ordinance with the poem about the ten little Indians. After searching the Island from top to bottom and finding nothing, they come to the conclusion that it must be one of them, but who and why?

The killer seemed to be Dr. Armstrong. The first two murders were dead giveaways (no pun intended). After Anthony Marston was poisoned, it was Dr. Armstrong who identified the poison. Potassium cyanide. The only way he could he known that was if he put it there himself because it has no odor. The other of course would not have known that. The poison could also be very accusable to the doctor. In Mrs. Rogers case, (the 2nd murder) the doctor gave her what was said to sleeping pills, but they could easily have been something else. Who would really know?

General MacArthur was the next to be killed .

He was not poisoned, but hit on the head with a lifesaver. This murder was committed while the men were searching the island, even though one single person had an alibi for his whereabouts when he was killed. Dr. Armstrong did stray from his group. When the General did not show up for lunch, Mr. Rogers offered to go and fetch him. Dr. Armstrong quickly volunteered instead. He came back to announce that he was dead.

Trying to figure out the person who is involved with all the crimes, this reader is wrong about the murderer. The true murderer was Wargrave! What a shock it brought to many of the readers.

All of the evidence logically points to Armstrong. He was capable of doing every murder. He was also the most obvious in most cases (when he identified the poison). Armstrong never admitted out loud that he was responsible for the death of Louisa, but it did show it in his thoughts that were printed. Dr. Armstrong was supposed to be the third little Indian (red herring) and that is probably the largest clue of all.

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