Dieci piccoli indiani by Agatha Christie

Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane and Anthony Berkeley. Cole and Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Dorothy L. In addition, each of the authors provided their own solution in a sealed envelope, all of which appeared at the end of the book, with Agatha Christie’s ingenious conclusion acknowledged at the time to be ‘enough to make the book worth buying on its own’. Chesterton to write a typically paradoxical prologue and Anthony Berkeley to tie up all the loose ends.

In a literary game of consequences, each author would write one chapter, leaving G.K. Sayers and ten other crime writers from the newly-formed ‘Detection Club’ collaborated in publishing a unique crime novel.

Owen per passare un safari in Africa, attesi dai coniugi Rodgers. Inspector Rudge begins to wonder just how many people have contributed to this extraordinary crime and whether he will ever unravel it… Agatha Christie: Dieci piccoli indiani Otto persone, il giudice Wargrave, il capitano Philip Lombard, Vera Claythorne, lattrice Marion Marshall, il generale Romensky, il detective Henry Blore, il dottor Werner e Anthony Marson, vengono invitate dallo sconosciuto sig. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye – even the identity of the victim is called into doubt.

The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago.

Dieci piccoli indiani by Agatha Christie