And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, who described it as the most difficult of her books to write. First published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in 1939 as Ten Little Niggers, after an 1869 minstrel song that serves as a major plot element, the US edition followed in 1940 with the title And Then There Were None, taken from the last five words of the song. While UK editions reprinted the original title until 1985, American Pocket Books used the title Ten Little Indians between 1964 and 1986. The book is the world's best-selling mystery and, with over 100 million copies sold by 2007, among the best-selling books to date, listed as the seventh best-selling title (any language, including reference works) of all time.

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