A small black island cut off from the mainland Large modern mansion . A group of strangers who, under various pretexts, are invited to the island and cut off from civilization Old children's estimate describing the death of ten Negritat... The guests of the island begin to die one by one, and the murder of each of them exactly corresponds to the description of the death of the Negro from the nursery. People on the island understand that the killer is among them, and there is no place to wait for help... An incredibly intense novel from the Queen of detectives Agatha Christie, who became, obviously, one of the progenitors of all modern psychological thrillers. Lady Agatha herself considered this novel her best book.