This also was my first Agatha Christie book, so I had no idea what to expect, other than the obvious, from the title, that there would be no one left at the end of the book.
I found it a very fast read, a page turner really, as I kept going back to read one more chapter. I was determined to figure out what was going on. And, that unfortunately, turned out to be impossible, since the perpetrator of the entire island murder spree did not die when we thought he did.
I suppose I should have guessed that one of them had to have faked their death, but I think I was stuck on there being someone else on the island. Maybe there were clues I missed, or maybe it was just the way the story was written.
At the very beginning, I found I had trouble keeping track of who was who, but it got easier, as we got to know the characters better.
Considering it was written in 1939, it really didn’t come across as being dated, except for things like the gramophone and Vera’s bathing dress.
I appreciated that despite 10 murders, there wasn’t any blood and gore. But what was with the canned tongue. As a vegetarian, that sounded utterly ghastly.
Four and a half stars out of 5. Took away half a star, only because of the twist ending that, I think, was impossible to figure out on your own.
I found it a very fast read, a page turner really, as I kept going back to read one more chapter. I was determined to figure out what was going on. And, that unfortunately, turned out to be impossible, since the perpetrator of the entire island murder spree did not die when we thought he did.
I suppose I should have guessed that one of them had to have faked their death, but I think I was stuck on there being someone else on the island. Maybe there were clues I missed, or maybe it was just the way the story was written.
At the very beginning, I found I had trouble keeping track of who was who, but it got easier, as we got to know the characters better.
Considering it was written in 1939, it really didn’t come across as being dated, except for things like the gramophone and Vera’s bathing dress.
I appreciated that despite 10 murders, there wasn’t any blood and gore. But what was with the canned tongue. As a vegetarian, that sounded utterly ghastly.
Four and a half stars out of 5. Took away half a star, only because of the twist ending that, I think, was impossible to figure out on your own.