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And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, who described it as the most difficult of her books to write. [2] It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers, [3] after an 1869 minstrel song that serves as a major plot element.
Ten Little Indians is a 2004 short story collection by Sherman Alexie. The collection contains nine stories all of which focus on the Spokane tribe of Native Americans in Washington state . [ 1 ]
It was released in the United Kingdom as Ten Little Indians, [4] in keeping with the third United Kingdom title of Christie's novel. [5] The film was released by 20th Century Fox and due to the lapsed copyright, it is now in the public domain. [6] The film has been remastered multiple times and is freely available online. [7]
Book cover by Frank Green, 1869. It is generally thought that this song was adapted, possibly by Frank J. Green in 1869, as "Ten Little Niggers", though it is possible that the influence was the other way around, with "Ten Little Niggers" being a close reflection of the text that became "Ten Little Indians".
The Mousetrap and Other Plays is a collection of plays by English crime novelist Agatha Christie, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons on 25 November 1978. The eight plays had been previously published individually between 1944 and 1960, and all but Verdict are adaptations of previously published works by Christie.
Ten Little Indians is a 1965 British crime mystery film directed by George Pollock.It is the second film version of Agatha Christie's 1939 novel. [1] It was produced by Oliver A. Unger, with co-producer Harry Alan Towers also credited as co-writer under his pen name Peter Welbeck.
For this script, Elyot restored the original book ending where both Vera and Lombard die and the murderer commits suicide. The versions of the rhyme and island name used were "Ten Little Soldiers" and "Soldier Island" as per current printings of the novel. Despite some positive reviews, [12] [13] the play closed on 14 January 2006. [14]
Agatha Christie as a girl, date unknown. Many of Christie's stories first appeared in journals, newspapers and magazines. [19] This list consists of the published collections of stories, in chronological order by UK publication date, even when the book was published first in the US or serialised in a magazine in advance of publication in book form.