Ten Little Niggers

Ten Little Niggers is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie. It takes its name from a nursery rhyme, in common with several other Christie titles (e.g. One, Two, Buckle my Shoe).

In 1940 it was republished as And Then There Were None, a more politically correct title, taken from the same rhyme.

It has been adapted for the cinema under that name in 1945 and again in 1974; and also filmed as Ten Little Indians in 1959, 1966, and 1989. It has also been performed regularly as a stage play.

Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.

Ten people are invited to a remote place - in Christie's original novel, an island off the southern coast of England, although the locale was changed for several of the film adaptations - by an eleventh person who never arrives, and are killed one by one.