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This question reminded me of the Agatha Christie novel '... And Then There Were None'. The setup is that ten strangers are brought to an island retreat by someone not known to any of them; it is t...
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System
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2019-12-08T07:45:26Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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PMar
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2019-12-08T07:45:26Z (almost 5 years ago)
This question reminded me of the Agatha Christie novel '... And Then There Were None'. The setup is that ten strangers are brought to an island retreat by someone not known to any of them; it is then revealed that each of them is considered by their 'host' to have gotten away with murder, and they are being brought to justice - i.e killed off one by one. By the end of the novel EVERYONE on the island is dead, and the local police (along with the reader) are presented with a baffling, apparently unsolvable mystery. **Then:** Christie adds _an epilogue_ in which the 'host' explains (in the cliched 'note found in a washed-up bottle') exactly how he did it.
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System
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2018-01-22T16:19:29Z (almost 7 years ago)
Original score: 5