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similar books to "And Then There Were None"
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There are numerous films which have taken "And Then There Were None" as the blueprint for their plots but not many books. With two exceptions. "A Maze of Death" by Philip K. Dick (a detective sci-fi book) has 14 travellers on the strange planet of DelmarkO who are being killed off one by one by a mysterious presence. If you type in "And Then There Were None" as your keyword search on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk it will list similar books. "The Ex" by Nicholas Sanders (a psychological thriller) is fifth or sixth on this list of results. I guarantee that “The Ex” is the closest novel you’ll find to "And Then There Were None" but is currently only available on the Kindle. Hope this helps |
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There was a third movie in the seventies called Ten Little Indians with Richard Attenborough, Herbert Lom, Elke Summer, and Oliver Reed. It took place at an isolated hotel in the Iranian desert.
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03-01-2012, 02:58 AM | #18 |
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Books like And Then There Were None
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There are numerous films which have taken "And Then There Were None" as the blueprint for their plots but not many books, if any. With two exceptions. "A Maze of Death" by Philip K. Dick (a detective sci-fi book) has 14 travellers on the strange planet of DelmakO who are being killed off one by one by a mysterious presence. If you type in "And Then There Were None" as your keyword search on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk it will list similar books. "The Ex" by Nicholas Sanders (a psychological thriller) is fifth or sixth on this list of results. I guarantee that “The Ex” is the closest novel you’ll find to "And Then There Were None" but is currently only available on the Kindle. Hope this helps |
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For similar novels, try any Christie and maybe Ngaio Marsh books. Death on the Nile is a particular Christie favourite.
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There's a new novel, An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena, that sounds similar to And Then There Were None. I haven't read it yet; I'm on the waiting list at my local library.
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Sounds like fun! This seems like more of a traditional mystery than Shari Lapena's previous books, which I liked fairly well.
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If you don't mind science fiction, "One Way" by Simon Morden is a mystery about a group of convicts who are coerced into going to Mars to build a base there, and are being killed off one-by-one in the process. Like on Soldier Island, there is nowhere for them to run. The setting is the near future, so the technology is pretty much what we have today. No high-tech MacGuffins to keep the adventure rolling.
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An Unwanted Guest looks like it might be very good, but at that price I think I'll read an old Agatha paperback.
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Catlady: I don't think my Kindle would have survived that ending!
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