Ten Little Soldiers
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Ten Little Soldiers is an alternative title for Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel "And Then There Were None," in which ten strangers are lured to an isolated location and killed one by one.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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novel ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
And Then There Were None
NERFINISHED
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Ten Little Indians NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alternativeTitleOf | And Then There Were None NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Agatha Christie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ten Little Soldiers nursery rhyme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralMystery | identities and motives of a killer among ten guests ⓘ |
| containsElement | locked-room style constraints due to isolation ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ whodunit ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations of And Then There Were None
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radio adaptations of And Then There Were None ⓘ stage play adaptation by Agatha Christie ⓘ television adaptations of And Then There Were None ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | later closed-circle mystery novels ⓘ |
| hasMotiveOfKiller | punishing people who escaped legal justice ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeDevice | use of a nursery rhyme to foreshadow each death ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
guilt
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isolation ⓘ justice ⓘ paranoia ⓘ retribution ⓘ the psychology of fear ⓘ |
| hasTone |
claustrophobic
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dark ⓘ suspenseful ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Golden Age of Detective Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainLocationType | isolated country house on an island ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
absence of a surviving detective who explains the solution during the main narrative
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innovative plot in which all suspects are also potential victims ⓘ |
| numberOfMainCharacters | 10 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Collins Crime Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Agatha Christie bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Ten strangers are lured to an isolated location and are killed one by one. ⓘ |
| setting | isolated island off the coast of Devon, England ⓘ |
| solutionRevealedIn | a postscript confession by the killer ⓘ |
| structure | characters are killed in a sequence that mirrors a nursery rhyme ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 20th century ⓘ |
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