First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unkonwn to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal--and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. And only the dead are above suspicion.

本书是随笔集。上世纪三十年代，侦探小说家阿加莎·克里斯蒂随同第二任丈夫马克斯·马洛温前往中东地区，在当地遇到了很多有趣的人和有趣的事。于是，阿加莎决定利用闲暇时间，把自己看到的风土人情和趣事用轻松幽默的笔调记录下了来。诚如作者本人所说，这本书”是一份爱的劳作”，串联其中的是令人捧腹的生活插曲，是鲜活的人物形象，是逝去的美好时光……

When an evening of fun and games turns to murder, Miss Marple plays by her own rules to solve the whodunit.

Book Description How odd, Anne Beddingfeld thought, that the stranger caught her eye, recoiled in horror, and fell to his death on the rails of Hyde Park Underground Station. Odder still was a doctor in a brown suit who pronounced him dead and vanished into the crowd. But what really aroused Anne's suspicion was when she learned of the doctor's link to the murder of a famous ballerina, a fortune in hidden diamonds, and a crime-lord embroiled in blackmail. And most frightening of all was the attempt made on Anne's own life. But she is unable to resist the lure of an isolated mansion that could hold the solution to the bizarre mystery--even if she becomes the next victim... From AudioFile Smart, plucky Anne Beddingfeld sees a man die strangely in a London tube station and decides to investigate the mystery herself. When the case points toward South Africa, the orphaned Anne uses her life savings to buy a ticket on an African-bound liner and heads off toward much adventure and intrigue in this delightful 1924 novel. Emilia Fox infuses Anne's voice with a level-headed bravery and uses a mix of British accents and intonations to inform listeners of the social class and personalities of the rest of the large class. An excellent job, marred only by her tendency to make all men speak in a husky whisper. A.C.S. Book Dimension length: (cm)17.1 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)10.8