Ten Little Indians

The novel "Ten Little Indians" is one of the greatest detective works in history. With a total circulation of over 100,000,000 copies, it ranks fifth on the list of bestselling fiction books of all time - and certainly first among Agatha Christie's own novels. Agatha Christie is the most published author of all time after Shakespeare. The circulation of her books is second only to the circulation of his works and the Bible. More than a billion of Christie's books have been sold in the world in English and the same number in other languages. She is the author of eighty detective novels and collections of short stories, twenty plays, two books of memoirs and six psychological novels, written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Her characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple have forever become exemplary heroes of the action genre. Agatha Christie considered "Ten Little Indians" to be her best work. The novel was published under this title in 1939, all subsequent publications were printed under the more politically correct title "...And Then There Were None". The novel became the first work with the theme of the "perfect murder", and also served as an example for the creation of many detective books and psychological films, which fully or partially used the techniques from this work. It was repeatedly filmed, but only the Soviet two-part television film by Stanislav Govorukhin fully corresponded to the plot line with a gloomy ending.