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1939
title: And Then There Were None text: And Then There Were None And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by English writer Agatha Christie, her best selling novel and described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers, after the British blackface song, which serves as a major plot point. The 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. All successive American reprints title: And Then There Were None text: none.</poem> This children's rhyme was originally written as songs in the 19th century, one in Britain in 1869 and one in the US in 1868. The novel was originally published in late 1939 and early 1940 almost simultaneously, in the United Kingdom and the United States. In the UK it appeared under the title "Ten Little Niggers", in book and newspaper serialized formats. The serialization was in 23 parts in the "Daily Express" from Tuesday 6 June to Saturday 1 July 1939. All of the instalments carried an illustration by "Prescott" with the first having an illustration of Burgh Island title: And Then There Were None (play) text: Dr. Armstrong The play was first published by Samuel French Ltd as a paperback in 1944. It was first published in hardback in "The Mousetrap and Other Plays" by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1978 () and in the UK by Harper Collins in 1993 (). At some point after the end of the Second World War, a survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp contacted Christie and told her that the inmates had staged their own production there, undoubtedly writing their own script as they would not have had access to the Christie version. Christie was told that they found that title: And Then There Were None text: best-selling novel, with more than 100 million copies sold; it is also the world's best-selling mystery and one of the best-selling books of all time. Publications International lists the novel as the sixth best-selling title. The book and its adaptations have been released under various new names since the original publication, including Ten Little Indians (1946 play, Broadway performance and 1964 paperback book), Ten Little Soldiers and official title per the Agatha Christie Limited website, "And Then There Were None". UK editions continued to use the work's original title until the 1980s; the first UK edition to use the alternative title: And Then There Were None text: of "our black brothers", which is understandable only in the context of the original name.) UK editions changed to the current definitive title in 1985. The word "nigger" was already racially offensive in the United States by the start of the 20th century, and therefore the book's first US edition and first serialization changed the title to "And Then There Were None" and removed all references to the word from the book, as did the 1945 motion picture. This is the best selling crime novel of all time, and what makes Agatha Christie the best selling novelist. It is Christie's