Agatha Christie’s (1939) is the world's best-selling mystery novel, having sold over 100 million copies. It is a "closed-circle" mystery where ten strangers are lured to an isolated island and killed off one by one in ways that mirror a nursery rhyme. Core Narrative Structure
And Then There Were None by A. Christie | Symbolism & Themes And Then There Were None
Ten people are invited to Soldier Island under various pretexts by a mysterious host named "U.N. Owen" (a pun on "Unknown"). And Then There Were None