EPEOLATRY

BOOK 4.5

And Then There Were None (1939)

by Agatha Christie

“Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”

It was a damm cliffhanger that I finished it in 3 sittings...Great suspense quite impossible to figure out till end. Really Agatha Christe's a mastermind and had written hundreds of mystery novels :O the style was fascinating. The concept was about the righteous murders beyond the reach of law & justice. The whole story revolves on a Children's Poem 'And Then There Were None' and the murders takes place similarly. As this mysteries killing starts the characters all are claimed equally as suspects inspite of their criminal guilts, they don't turn into maniacs but starts to investigate among them. And as, despite the precautions, the number of people trapped on the island continues to decline, the uneasy tension sets in, and the impeccable facades begin to crack.

"The others went upstairs, a slow unwilling procession. If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feel­ing. But this house was the essence of modernity. There were no dark corners ​no possible sliding panels it was flooded with electric light everything was new and bright and shining. There was nothing hidden in this house, nothing concealed. It had no atmosphere about it. Somehow, that was the most frightening thing of all. They exchanged goodnights on the upper landing. Each of them went in­to his or her own room, and each of them automatically, almost without conscious thought, locked the door."

The serial killer is quite conceiled that he has the right and moral authority to determine the guilt and extent of punishment and starts poetic killings.

It was a quite fast read. The whole set up was quite awesome and the ending is a lot baffling & unexpected.