Armstrong actually helped Wargrave: Wargrave needed an ally for his plan, he selected dr. Wargrave thought Armstrong still had to pay for what he did. Armstrong was a bit drunk during the operation, that’s why she died. He was picked because Wargrave charged him with causing the dead of Louisa Mary Clees. This man was invited to come to Nigger Island. When everybody was dead, he killed himself in a very clever way.

So he choose nine other people, invited them to come to Nigger Island and then killed them one by one according to a nursery rhyme (a rhyme about ten little niggers) he remembered from his childhood. Then the idea came to him: he went looking for people who all committed a murder, but were all quite untouchable by the law. He wanted to commit a murder, and that shouldn’t be an ordinary murder, but a fantastical crime. But for some years he had been aware of a change within himself he felt a desire to act instead of to judge. He says his nature was a mass of contradictions he has ‘an incurably romantic imagination’ (page 210) and that he has ‘a definite sadistic delight in seeing or causing death’ (page 211), but he took no pleasure in seeing someone innocent suffer. In the epilogue he describes how and why he did it. In the end, this man appeared to be the one who set this whole murder thing up. The story is set in Nigger Island, an island near the coast of Devon, England. There are no actual dates mentioned in this book, but I think the story takes place in the time in which it was written (1939), because some things are quite old- fashioned. It was a shame though, that I already knew how the book would end.ģ.

Two years ago I saw a play of this book and that appealed to me very much.

Agatha christie ten little