In true Agatha Christie fashion, an air of mystery and suspense pervades And Then There Were None. One suspenseful event in the beginning of the novel occurs when the recording is played. After dinner at the isolated, luxurious mansion, a voice accuses each character in turn of murdering someone and not being punished for it.
After the first two deaths, the remaining characters realize that the set of ten little Indian figurines is missing...
In true Agatha Christie fashion, an air of mystery and suspense pervades And Then There Were None. One suspenseful event in the beginning of the novel occurs when the recording is played. After dinner at the isolated, luxurious mansion, a voice accuses each character in turn of murdering someone and not being punished for it.
After the first two deaths, the remaining characters realize that the set of ten little Indian figurines is missing the first two figures. Not only that, the first two figures died in similar fashion to their deceased housemates: choking (from poison) and oversleeping (overdosing on sleeping pills). This increases the suspense because each character faces the chilling idea that he or she is trapped on an island with a murderer who has carefully planned their death. As each character is eliminated, the tension mounts among those who remain.
The suspenseful climax of the book occurs when the (supposedly) last two characters left alive each believe the other is the killer. Vera grabs Lombard’s gun and kills him, then in turn kills herself with a noose that has been left waiting for her.
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