10 Little Indians

[bartl]

I'm not surprised that you don't know the ending, Steven. I've seen about 3 or 4 of the many remakes of the story, and ALL of them had different endings. The real ending is, the killer, who was a judge who had gotten away with murder himself, kills himself, leaving a mystery for the police who come 2 weeks later to find only corpses.

[Steven Grant]

And why on earth would he do that?

Man, I hate Agatha Christie novels. I remember Chandler's comment that the solution to MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, called by some the "perfect mystery story" is so ingenious only a halfwit could think of it...

[Brenz]

I never read Christie, as my mom, a pretty avid mystery fan, griped all through my youth how Aunt Aggie's idea of a resolution and a motive for the killer is to reveal some mental illness that the reader could have had no way of knowing, and that invalidates any criticisms because, hey, the killer doesn't have to be logical, s/he's a nutbag.

Suffice it to say, I was pretty cheesed at Identity Crisis when it capped off a great six issues with the ending it chose.

[thehod]

And why on earth would he do that?

Man, I hate Agatha Christie novels. I remember Chandler's comment that the solution to MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, called by some the "perfect mystery story" is so ingenious only a halfwit could think of it...

The character in Ten Little Indians wants to commit the perfect crime. A crime so shocking and so puzzling that people will talk about it forever.

The only down side being that if the damn crime is so perfect, no-one will ever know who did it. Thats why he writes a confession, and puts it into a bottle and throws it into the sea.

If you think that one's bad, try The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", where the murderer turns out to be

SPOILER (as I have no idea how to do that neat spolier trick)


The book's narrator.



That one'll make your head burst.

[Adam Crocker]

SPOILER (as I have no idea how to do that neat spolier trick)


just put the word 'spoil' into your standard code brackets, like so.

The reggae sampler did not come with the recent issues of Mojo shipped to western Canada!

[NatGertler]

I like some of the Christie twists, which bothered to find new ground in a field which had retread the old ground so many times.

However, even if you know the original ending to Ten Little Indians, you may not know the original beginning. That title was a replacement title; copies with the original title are highly prized collectibles. But I think we can understand why the title was changed from... Ten Little Niggers.

http://www.betweenthecovers.com/display.php?id=59840

[bartl]

And why on earth would he do that?

Man, I hate Agatha Christie novels. I remember Chandler's comment that the solution to MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, called by some the "perfect mystery story" is so ingenious only a halfwit could think of it...
Still, I once went to a "solve the mystery dinner", and the solution was THE ORIENT EXPRESS one, and, being a halfwit myself, figured it out immediately, and almost lost because, get this: Nobody in my group could find a pen to write down the solution and turn it in!!!!!!

[bartl]

[QUOTE=thehod]
SPOILER (as I have no idea how to do that neat spolier trick)
[QUOTE]
Buzz Dixon (I miss him around here) came up with the trick. Use the text color. I used white, so that people could figure out that you highlight the text to see it, like this:
This text is in white.
But if you REALLY want to get people scatching their heads, use Lemon Chiffon, like this:
This is in lemon chiffon.

[bartl]

I like some of the Christie twists, which bothered to find new ground in a field which had retread the old ground so many times.

However, even if you know the original ending to Ten Little Indians, you may not know the original beginning. That title was a replacement title; copies with the original title are highly prized collectibles. But I think we can understand why the title was changed from... Ten Little Niggers.

http://www.betweenthecovers.com/display.php?id=59840
Believe it or not, I first discovered that when looking up in IMDB to find out how many versions of the story I had seen in movie form for this thread, and found out that there was actually a movie version created with that name (used it in the UK, only, in the U.S., it was called, "And Then There Were None").