Ten Little Niggers
Collins, 1939.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth in green pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, which is bright and crisp just showing a trace of light wear to the corners and a couple of trivial closed tears. An excellent copy.
Ten Little Niggers is certainly the greatest story that the Crime Club has ever published. We believe it may come to be considered the greatest crime problem ever devised in fiction.
Agatha Christie has always shown her preference for the closed" murder problem, in which the possible suspects are limited to a small and definite group of persons. In the present case ten people are invited to a mansion on Nigger Island, off the coast of Devon, by a host that fails to appear. They are completely cut off from civilisation - cut off from every thing but each other and their inescapable shadows of their own past lives..." (Blurb)
A highlight of Christie's extensive output, and the classic politically incorrect title - made worse by the dustwrapper artwork showing ten black primitive looking figures. Reprints were retitled 'Ten Little Indians' and in America the book was published as 'And Ten There Were None'.
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