Murder Mystery Type Book example essay topic

And Then There Were None did my book critique on And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie was born on September 5, 1890, in Torquay England. In 1914 she married Colonel Archibald Christie. They had one daughter, whose name was Rosalind, and then they divorced in 1928. She started writing in 1920, and her first book published was The Mysterious Affair at Styles. She wrote And Then There Were None in 1939.

Agatha Christie has become one of the most famous writer of mystery novels. And Then There Were None is a murder mystery type book. And Then There Were None takes place on an island in the middle of the ocean, but it doesn't say the years it takes place in. In And Then There Were None, eight people who do not know each other were all invited to an island off of the English coast. The eight people are Vera Claythorne, Philip Lombard, William Blore, Dr. Armstrong, Emily Brent, General Macarthur, Tony Marston, and Judge Wargrave. They all think they are going to the island for different reasons.

When they arrive at the island they are greeted by Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, but the host is Mr. Owens (but he isn't there). After they eat dinner they go into a different room and a recorded voice accuses each of them committing a murder that was never uncovered. Later that night Tony Marts on dies from poisoned whiskey. The next morning Mrs. Rogers died in her sleep. That day General Macarthur goes out to the ocean and is killed there.

After General Macarthur dies each of the guests think that the killer is one of each of them. The next day, Mr. Rogers is killed while chopping wood while preparing for breakfast. On the dining room table there were ten Indian figures, but after a person is killed one disappears each time. After breakfast Emily Brent is killed because someone injected poison into her neck.

Later Judge Wargrave was found with a shot in his head. The next day when Blore is walking back to the house someone pushes a statue out of the second story, and it lands on Blore, killing him. When Vera and Lombard go looking for Blore, they find Armstrong's drowned body on the beach. Since only Vera and Lombard are left, Vera thinks Lombard is the killer, and takes his gun and shoots him. When she goes back to her room there is a noose in her room, and she hangs herself.

The police have no idea how this mystery happened, until they found a paper in a bottle that Judge Wargrave wrote saying that he planned the murders because he wanted to punish people who had not been punished by the law. There were a lot of major characters in this book. Three of the most important characters were Judge Wargrave, Vera Claythorne, and Dr. Armstrong. Judge Wargrave was the person that had planned all of the murders.

Judge Wargrave acts as a leader for the group in the book. At the end of the book, he reveals a confession showing some of his characteristics that made him commit all of the murders. Vera Claythorne was a governess who came to serve as a secretary. She went to the island trying to get away because she killed a small boy (Cyril Hamilton). She is one of the smartest people on the island, but she still feels guilty about the murder of the boy, and it makes her act nervous at some of the events on the island. Dr. Armstrong was often suspected to be the murderer because of his knowledge.

He was an alcoholic, and killed a patient while operating on her while he was drunk. He was killed because Judge Wargrave pushed him over a cliff. I thought that the book was good. It was really good mainly because it had more than one mystery. Two of the mysteries were, who killed all the people, and every time a person was killed, a little Indian figure was removed from the table. I decided to read this book because I had heard from people that it was very good.

It was not very boring or anything like that, and it had an unexpected ending to it, even for a mystery book, and it was one of the best mystery books that I have read. I would recommend the book to other people because since I thought it was a good book I think that other people would like it too. If I could rewrite the book, I would not have changed anything in it because I am not good at writing stories, and I thought that the book was really good the way it was already written.