Nine little Indian boys sat up very late One overslept himself and then there were eight. The rhyme: Ten little Indian boys went out to dine One choked his little self and then there were nine.

In the 'Binge!' article of Entertainment Weekly Issue #1343-44 (26 December 2014–3 January 2015), the writers picked And Then There Were None as an 'EW favorite' on the list of the 'Nine Great Christie Novels'. Ten Little Indians is a nursery rhyme referenced in the 1939 Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None. Narrator The narrator is an unnamed omniscient individual. In September 2015, to mark her 125th birthday, And Then There Were None was named the 'World's Favourite Christie' in a vote sponsored by the author's estate. Full title And Then There Were None (originally published as Ten Little Indians). In 1995 in a similar list Mystery Writers of America ranked the novel 10th. In 1990 Crime Writers' Association ranked And Then There Were None 19th in their The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list. UK editions continued to use the original title until the current definitive title appeared with a reprint of the 1963 Fontana Paperback in 1985.

All successive American reprints and adaptations use that title, except for the Pocket Books paperbacks published between 19, which appeared under the title Ten Little Indians. A US edition was released in January 1940 with the title And Then There Were None, which is taken from the last five words of the song. The book was published in America as And Then There Were None and was later reissued as Ten Little Indians, perhaps only an incremental improvement over. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers, after the children's counting rhyme and minstrel song, which serves as a major element of the plot. And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write.

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