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p q ■ B L A N K P A G E 10 ■ 10 5 q p And Then There Were None 8 To Carlo and Mary This is their book, dedicated to them with much affection. p q ■ B L A N K P A G E 10 ■ 10 Contents About Agatha Christie The Agatha Christie Collection Author’s Note Ten Little Soldier Boys Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 Copyright www.agathachristie.com About the Publisher p q ■ B L A N K P A G E 10 ■ 10 7 Author’s Note I had written this book because it was so difficult to do that the idea had fascinated me. Ten people had to die without it becoming ridiculous or the murderer being obvious. I wrote the book after a tremendous amount of planning, and I was pleased with what I had made of it. It was clear, straightforward, baffling, and yet had a perfectly reasonable explanation; in fact it had to have an epilogue in order to explain it. It was well received and reviewed, but the person who was really pleased with it was myself, for I knew better than any critic how difficult it had been. q p from An Autobiography p q ■ B L A N K P A G E 10 ■ 10 9......