The story has been adapted to the screen a number of times beginning here. Christie also wrote a stage adaptation Ten Little Niggers (1943). This purportedly has been the best-selling of all of Christie’s books. Not too surprisingly, this title has been dropped these days – subsequent reprintings have substituted Ten Little Indians, while in the US printing it was changed to And Then There Were None and that seems to have stuck as the least offensive title.
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More recently, she underwent a revival with Kenneth Branagh’s remake of Murder on the Orient Express (2017), which was followed by sequels and a host of British tv mini-series adaptations.Īnd Then There Were None was originally published under the title Ten Little Niggers (1939), a title taken from a children’s rhyme. Christie’s works have been adapted to the screen on numerous occasions, most famously with the hit Murder on the Orient Express (1974), which led to a spate of big-budget adaptations over the next few years, and then the success enjoyed by the tv series’ Miss Marple (1984-92) and Poirot (1989-2013). During her lifetime, she produced 66 novels, including Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Death on the Nile (1937), Appointment with Death (1938), Evil Under the Sun (1941), Sparkling Cyanide (1945) and The Mirror Crack’d (1962), among many others.
Nicknamed The Queen of Crime, Christie’s books and plays specialised in murder mysteries – she patented a formula where a murder usually took place at a locale and offered up a variety of suspects each with good reason to be the murderer, before the killer’s identity and modus operandi would be revealed in the last chapter. She began publishing with the novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which introduced her most famous character, the detective Hercule Poirot.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was to all accounts the most popular author of all time.
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