无人生还简介

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名字：Ten Little Niggers/Ten Little Indians/And Then There Were None
出版于1939年
1945年以And Then There Were None，1949年以Ten Little Niggers，1965年以Ten Little Indians，1975年以And Then There Were None，1989年以Ten Little Indians 的名字在英美两地反复被改编上映。1987年在USSR以Desyat negrityat上映。
无人生还又名<十个小黑人><孤岛十命>等，是阿婆最著名的作品之一，在多种排名中均局榜首，虽然没有波波，马波等名探出场，魅力仍不容忽视，值得一看！
八个素不相识的人受邀来到海岛黑人岛上。他们抵达后，接待他们的却只是管家特夫妇俩。用晚餐的时候，餐厅里的留声机忽然响起，指控他们宾客以及管家夫妇这十人都曾犯有谋杀罪。众人正在惶恐之际，来宾之一忽然死亡，噩梦由此开始了。
他们在自己的房间里都发现了这首儿歌
十个印地安小男孩，为了吃饭去奔走；
噎死一个没法救，十个只剩九。
九个印地安小男孩，深夜不寐真困乏；
倒头一睡睡死啦，九个只剩八。
八个印地安小男孩，德文城里去猎奇；
丢下一个命归西，八个只剩七。
七个印地安小男孩，伐树砍枝不顺手；
斧劈两半一命休，七个只剩六。
六个印地安小男孩，玩弄蜂房惹蜂怒；
飞来一蛰命呜呼，六个只剩五。
五个印地安小男孩，惹是生非打官司；
官司缠身直到死，五个只剩四。
四个印地安小男孩，结伙出海遭大难；
鱼吞一个血斑斑，四个只剩三。
三个印地安小男孩，动物园里遭祸殃；
狗熊突然从天降，三个只剩两。
两个印地安小男孩，太阳底下长叹息；
晒死烤死悲戚戚，两个只剩一。
一个印地安小男孩，归去来兮只一人；
悬梁自尽了此生，一个也不剩。
餐桌上还有十个小瓷像。从第一天晚上开始的几天时间里，每天都有人按着儿歌里述说的方式死去，每死一个人，餐桌上的瓷瓶就会少掉一个。一时之间，人人自危，都希望能找出一个办法拯救自己的生命。
可是海上起了大风浪，不可能寻得救援或者逃出生天。唯一的求生办法就是找出凶手。
谁是凶手呢？荒岛已经被他们搜寻数遍，不可能有容身之处，所以凶手必然在他们中间。
幸存着的人们彼此怀疑，彼此试探，可是一切的警戒一切的提防还是没有能阻止那最后一刻的到来。
风浪停息了，岛上的明争暗斗也停息了，只留下了十具尸体……无人生还。

阿婆在自传中这样说，写这样一篇小说显然是非常有难度的，而这个念头一直在我脑中挥之不去。十个人都得被杀，而故事不能显得太过荒诞，又不能把凶手写得太明显。经过非常仔细的计划后，我写出了这本书，并对之非常满意。

英文简介：

(Alternate titles: And Then There Were None, Ten Little Niggers)
Ten men and women have been invited to stay for one week on Indian Island, off the Devon coast in England, by its owner, Mr. Owen. The ten people are strangers to each other and none of them know Owen, but the mysterious owner, ! strangely, knows enough about each of his prospective guests to make his invitations appealing. To those in need of employment, he has offered jobs, to those desiring relaxation, he has promised a vacation.
The prospect of staying at Mr. Owen's home I has proved so alluring that seven of the invitees I are presently aboard a motor launch bound for the island! two of the guests have come to the island ahead of the others! and the last will arrive laterthat day. "A queer lot" is how the group I impresses Fred Narracott as he pilots their boat to t the island! they're not at all as classy as he had expected the guests of Mr. Owen to be. But, how would Narracott know what they should be like? The boatman has never met Mr. Owen because he has received his orders and payments from Owen's go-between, Mr. Isaac Morris. Narracott thinks this is a bit funny and concludes that "Mr. Owen must be a very different sort of gentleman."
Well, back to the "queer lot." There's the "reptilian old man," and retired judge, Mr. Justice Wargrave! the attractive ex-governess, Vera Claythome, who appears "a bitschoolmistressy"! the arrogant Philip Lombard, who brings a gun with him to the island! and the old woman, Emily Brent, with her air of righteousness and unflinching morals. AnthonyMarston, the handsome young man, looks "not a man, but a young god"! past police detective, Mr. Blore,disguises himself as a Mr. Davis of South Africa!and retired General Macarthur appears soldierly and shrewd. Already on Indian Island are the reticent manservant, Mr. Rogers, and his wife. The successful Dr. Armstrong, who is en route to Owen's home apart from the other guests, appears in need of a rest.
First impressions of Indian Island and the Owen home, the only building on the island, are enthusiastic—the house is modern and exciting, the rooms provide beautiful views of the sea, and the larder is stocked with fine food and drink. In each guest's room, displayed in a frame, is the old nursery rhyme which begins
Ten little Indian boys went out to dine!
One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Nine little Indian boys sat up very late!
One overslept himself and then there were eight
and continues its account of the dissolution of the ten little Indians until its final lines read
One little Indian boy left all alone!
He went and hanged himself and then there were none."
The Indian theme is carried out further in the ten little china figures of Indians that grace a table in the dining-room. The figures are the Indians referred to in the nursery rhyme, Vera reasons, and all the guests find the idea quite quaint and amusing.
First impressions don't prove too lasting on Indian Island though, for before long, things are far from amusing. "Ha, delightful spot!" General Macarthur had exclaimed upon his arrival at the island, but he feels uneasy and thinks it an odd sort of place. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers announce that the Owens have been delayed and will not arrive until tomorrow, and Mrs. Rogers reveals that she and her husband have never met the Owens.
Following dinner the first evening, everybody is in better spirits. They have eaten well, begun to chat with each other, and are content as they enter the drawing room — until the Voice comes "without warning, inhuman, penetrating," charging each guest, in a high, clear voice, with the murders of one or several people. "A mean practical joke," some say, but people faint, drop serving trays, mop perspiring faces, and age ten years within minutes. The uneasy guests find the source of the Voice in a gramophone hidden behind the drawing room wall, which, the Rogers admit, they had been instructed by Owen to put on following dinner.
After comparing their letters from Owen and recounting the uncanny events that have occurred since their arrival, the ten guests resolve to leave the island tomorrow when FredNarracott comes on his daily delivery visit. They consider it the only way to free themselves from the grasp of a man JusticeWargrave describes as "a madman— probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic."
Anthony Marston, oblivious to the gravity of the situation, finds it positively thrilling, "like a detective story," drinks his whisky and soda down in a gulp, and chokes to death. Dr. Armstrong determines the cause of his death to be cyanide poisoning. Though Marston was too vigorous a person to commit suicide, no one has the nerve to label the death a murder.
In the background of the action, Mr. Rogers notices that one china figure is missing.
The next morning, the beginning of the supposed day of deliverance from the lunatic's island, Mrs. Rogers never awakens, and one more china figure is missing. Two suicides within twelve hours is a bit unlikely, so the deaths are presumed to be the handiwork of Mr. Owen. Soon the terrifying realization dawns that the manners of death of the two victims are exactly those depicted in the "Ten Little Indians" nursery' rhyme. A search of the house and the entire island reveals that "there is no one on the island but their eight selves." Suddenly, they know that Fred Narracott won't be coming to the island. Suddenly, the nursery rhyme and china figures aren't quaint: they are miniatures in poetry and glass of the fates of ten Indians imprisoned on |Indian Island.
Terror and suspicion among the prisoners! mount as the number of china figures dwindles.!
Despite Justice Wargrave's warnings to "take no risks and be alert to danger," GeneralMacarthur'si fatalistic prediction that none were going to leave the island alive becomes more likely.
The deaths of all ten guests are finesse jobs — grotesque and well planned. So well planned, in' fact, that Sir Thomas Legge, AssistantCommissioner at Scotland Yard, and Inspector Maine, also I of Scotland Yard, can conclude only that the ten I guests were victims of murder. How could it be| that all the bodies appeared to be murder victims, and not a single one showed evidence of being | that of a murderer who had committed suicide?The detectives are absolutely certain that the ten guests were the only people on the island （before the police arrived）, that no person could have left the island because of rough sea conditions after a storm, and that the murderer was one of the ten guests.
Who, then, was the murderer?
That's the question Legge and Maine are stuck withy the end of their investigation, and it's the question that would have remained forever unanswered — had not the mastermind behind it all cast into the waters surrounding Indian Island a bottle containing the secrets of the "fantastical" murder of the ten little Indians.

MAUREEN STODDARD