And then there Ware none by Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
by
AGATHA CHRISTIE
CHAPTER 1
IN THE CORNER of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave,
lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye
through the political news in the Times.
He laid the paper down and glanced out of the window. They were running now
through Somerset. He glanced at his watch-another two hours to go. He went
over in his mind all that had appeared in the papers about Indian Island.
There had been its original purchase by an American millionaire who was crazy
about yachting-and an account of the luxurious modern house he had built on
this little island off the Devon coast. The unfortunate fact that the new
third wife of the American millionaire was a bad sailor had led to the
subsequent putting up of the house and island for sale. Various glowing
advertisements of it had appeared in the papers. Then came the first bald
statement that it had been bought-by a Mr. Owen. After that the rurnours
of the gossip writers had started. Indian Island had really been bought by
Miss Gabrielle Turl, the Hollywood film star! She wanted to spend some
months there free from all publicity! Busy Bee had hinted delicately that
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