And Then There Were None 5 (The last)

Name of the book: And Then There Were None

Author: Agatha Christie

Number of pages read: 65

SUMMARY: So far, there were four people in the house who were Vera Claythorne, Philip Lombard, Dr. Armstrong, William Blore. After they saw Wargrave’s death, they went their own rooms and locked their doors. They exactly did not trust each other. That night, Blore heard somebody passed his room and left the house. He clued that somebody who was not in the room had to be the murder and Dr. Armstrong was not. Blore and Lombard tried to search the island for Dr. Armstrong , but they came the house with nothing. The three people decided to make a sign as SOS. After Blore turned to the house for food, Lombard and Claythorne heard that something had fallen heavily. They ran to the place, and then they saw Blore’s dead body with a broken bear sculpture. They thought Dr. Armstrong hide himself in the island. They searched the island for Dr. Armstrong, but they found Dr. Armstrong’s dead body which looked like drowned. They had been shocked because they had believed Dr. Armstrong had to be killer. Blore suggested to Claythrone that they moved up Dr. Armstrong’s body up. During pulling up the body, suddenly Claythrone took a revolver from Lombard and shot him. There was only Claythorne in the island.  When she returned to the house, a rope and chair had been set up for her suicide. She hung herself and kicked the chair. Finally, all people died as the nursery rhyme and then there were none.  In Epilogue, some police talked about the case of the island but they couldn’t solve who is the murder. After the case, police department of London received a letter. The letter was written by Wargrave and he wrote everything why he killed them and how killed himself and ‘red herring’ mean. In summary the letter, he heard a story of old couple who died by Mr. and Mrs. Roger and he decided to kill people who law couldn’t reach. He made Dr. Armstrong join his plan. Wargrave killed each person as the nursery rhyme and when he made himself look dead, Dr. Armstrong made people believe that. A role of Dr. Armstrong was red herring which means making people turn their attention to others.  After everyone died, he shot his head by a gun with a plan.

REACTION: Finally, the story is over. As the summary, Wargrave is the murder. Before I finished reading the book, I clued similarly that somebody who already died made other people believe his or her death and continued to kill others. However, my clue had an error because Dr. Armstrong kept proving people’s death. He examined all people and determined the death, so I could not continue to clue and I could not think Wargrave must be murder. When I read the letter, I was surprised at Dr. Armstron joined the plan. I had never thought that, so I realized that my clue had to be mistaken by him. Therefore, This is really awesome book. This makes me think again the author is genius. After reading, I searched her other books in online. During the research, I found that this book is the best of the author. Also, it is contained best three of detective fictions. And then, I thought my choice was good. Now, I do not choose another book, but I will choose another detective fiction. Thank you for reading the summaries and reactions so far.