Ten strangers arrive on a mysterious island at the invitation of an unknown host, only to find themselves accused of murder. The plot, to be sure, is more or less the same. It also has little in common with its source material. Lifetime's And Then There Were None, a TV adaptation of the famous Agatha Christie novel airing in two parts on March 13 and 14, is enormous fun: a lush, lurid, gothic fantasy of a murder mystery. Narrator is excellent and makes the story worth buying.Light spoilers follow, but the identity of the killer is not revealed. I can not tell you where they went wrong without giving away they mystery, but it has to do with a guy breathing. Unfortunately this is because once again of the idiot characters, something we could not guess since we would not expect people to be that stupid. The actual mystery is a good one and I doubt if many people figure it out a head of time. I suppose it has to do with when this was written, I really don't think a Mystery Writer would get by with that today. Early in the story a man's wife dies in the night and the next morning he is cooking breakfast, cleaning up after the guests and chopping wood. Even though they are killed one by one and usually at night, they all go to separate bedrooms at night. Often when looking back on a murder the characters will compare it to the nursery rhyme, yet not once do they look at the rhyme to see how the next murder will take place. Each murder happens just as the nursery rhyme says it will and after each murder a statue goes missing. There is even a board with the statues of ten soldiers. Posted in the house on the Island is a child's nursery rhyme about ten soldiers who are killed one by one. For Example: Ten people are lured to and stranded on an Island. It always bothers me when listening, reading or watching a mystery and the characters don't ask the right questions or do the most logical things. The low rating in story is due some unbelievable stupidity by the characters. Written in 1939 it has some interesting details about life in those days. With 10 minutes left, my wife and I stayed in the driveway to see how it finished. A great read, which I will gladly revisit in future, especially since my heartbeat has returned to normal now.Įntertaining from start to finish. Gotta love the timing of a thunderstorm as I read the last chapters. ![]() ![]() If I could give him more than 5 stars, I would! A wonderful chilling suspense mystery. It was one of the most marvelous performances I have ever heard, rivaled only by Stevens' own narration of Murder on the Orient Express. From the initial curiosity and disbelief, to the suspicion and weariness, he made it palpable, as if you were right there on the island with them. Masterfully done, seamless character transitions, and fantastically carried out the emotion of every scene -not just of individuals, but the atmosphere. Stevens is one of the only male narrators I have heard able to voice multiple female characters so well and consistently, without trouble distinguishing between them or sounding too high-pitched or forced. Dan Stevens, hats off to you! If I hadn't known better, I could have thought there was a full cast reading this, rather than a single person supplying over a dozen voices. The constant murder countdown, one by one slowly and inevitably. That nursery rhyme was well selected I still feel a little haunted by it. ![]() Sent shivers down my spine nearly the whole 6 hours. just waiting it out until the unveil at that point). And I had little clue the entire way through, until something mentioned in passing by the police in the penultimate chapter perked up my suspicions- but even then I hadn't put it all together (I had really stopped trying very hard to figure it out once the doctor was found. I don't think I've ever been made so nervous in a murder mystery before. Stevens deserves higher than 5-star rating! This audiobook would be ideal for a long drive or a boring night shift. Altogether, I rate the recording 8.5 stars out of 10. I suspect other readers could do similarly well, but this is an above-average narration performance. Dan Stevens's capable narration does an excellent job of getting across the story, too - exhibiting impressive diction, timbre, cadence, and voice-acting - while admittedly delivering some of the text in a monotone and reading just a little bit too slowly (set playback speed at 1.10X for the optimal experience). but it's an undeniably entertaining whodunit. The scenario is largely implausible and the writing is actually somewhat over-the-top. ![]() Most Agatha Christie fans rate this tale among her best works (being about a group of 10 purported murderers lured & gathered on an isolated island, accused, and killed one by one by somebody identifying as U.N. I purchased this title based pretty much solely on reputation.
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