A “Negro island” cut off from the mainland. A large modern manor house. A group of unrelated people invited to the island under various pretexts, cut off from civilization. An old children’s counting rhyme describing the death of ten little black boys...
The island’s guests begin to die one by one, and the killing of each one matches exactly the description of the death of the little black boy from the rhyme. People on the island understand that the killer is among them, and help is nowhere to be found...
An incredibly tense novel from the Queen of Detectives, Agatha Christie—obviously one of the forebears of all modern psychological thrillers.
Lady Agatha herself considered this novel her best book.