Of all of Christie’s works, And Then There Were None is the most frequently adapted for stage and screen (and the Nintendo Wii). There are international versions from India (Gumnaam) and Russia (Desyat’ Negrityat), and many TV movies and episodes based on it. It’s sometimes known by its alternate title, Ten Little Indians (an alternate for another grossly inappropriate title we won’t mention), the appeal of this mystery is the rhythm of the suspects being picked off one by one, each tied to a line of a children’s poem and represented by a disappearing figurine from a display on the dining room table. This latest version, written by Sarah Phelps and directed by Craig Viveiros, is the first English adaptation to use Christie’s original, much darker, ending. There’s no detective in this one, just a team from Scotland Yard trying to put the pieces together. The cast of this version includes Charles Dance, Douglas Booth, Maeve Dermody, Burn Gorman, Anna Maxwell Martin, Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Toby Stephens, Noah Taylor, and Aidan Turner as Philip Lombard.
