Made into an excellent 1945 film, *And Then There Were None*, directed by René Clair, scripted by Dudley Nichols and with Barry Sullivan and Walter Huston leading an excellent ensemble cast. In any event, one of Christie's most ingenious, rarest, and sought after titles, reportedly the best-selling mystery of all time. The book was published in America as *And Then There Were None* and was later reissued as *Ten Little Indians,* perhaps only an incremental improvement over the original. A highly politically incorrect title even when it was published, the jacket compounded the problem by portraying little black figures with big white lips cavorting with spears and eating watermelon. The term 'Indians' in this sense refers to Indigenous North American peoples, with some adaptations referring to Indians as people of Sub-Saharan African ethnicity. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 12976. Some sunning to the spine ends, and a dampstain on the front board, an about very good copy in an attractive, very good plus example of the dustwrapper with some neatly effected professional restoration, particularly at the base of the spine. Ten Little Indians' is a traditional American children's counting out rhyme. London: Collins for the Crime Club, (1939).
Library of Congress 88 Books That Shaped America.
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