A recording is played after dinner on the first night they arrive. The recording accuses each of the guests of a crime. Soon the people on the island begin to die, one by one. Each death is shocking. As the group gets smaller and smaller, the tension ratchets up.
The story pulled me in very quickly. I knew the general setup but had not watched any film adaptations, and was wondering how it all ends. Could it live up to the acclaim it has always gotten? It did for me. The writing is very suspenseful. I could not help trying to figure out not only who was the killer but how it was all managed. I did at one time suspect the actual culprit but Christie is very competent at making you second guess your deductions.
Also the characterizations are very good and slowly revealed. With so many characters there could not be a lot of depth, but still we are provided with backgrounds and sometimes surprised by the behavior of the characters.
"Perhaps the most famous of all Dame Agatha's novels, this is both a masterful cat-and-mouse thriller and a baffling exercise for armchair sleuths—a genuine tour de force. And like all of her best work, it has inspired countless variations—the ultimate compliment for any crime novel and crime-novel writer."
This was my book for the Classic Club Spin #23. I am glad I finally read it.
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Publisher: Harper, 2011 (orig. pub. 1939)
Length: 300 pages
Format: paperback
Setting: UK
Genre: Mystery
Source: On my TBR pile since 2013.
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