Mysteries to Die For Book Club: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Schedule
Thu Feb 26 2026 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Bookstore1Sarasota | Sarasota, FL
About this Event
The Mysteries to Die For Book Club is led by Elsie Souza, reading M**der, mayhem, and marvelous prose. February's selection is the second stop in our four-month international reading journey through the world's most captivating mysteries. From Nordic noir to British whodunits, each book reveals how crime and storytelling cross borders, and what our favorite detectives can teach us about culture, justice, and the human heart.
This month, we're reading And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - the quintessential mystery novel and one of the best-selling books of all time. Ten strangers are invited to a remote island under false pretenses, only to be accused of terrible crimes and picked off one by one. With its ingenious structure, razor-sharp suspense, and psychological precision, Christie's masterpiece set the standard for every whodunit that followed (and remains just as chilling today).
We will meet in person at our store location at The Mark, 117 S. Pineapple Ave. The book club is $21.99, which includes a copy of And Then There Were None to be picked up at Bookstore1 any time before our meeting. Themed refreshments will be served!
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to an isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island, they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die…
Which among them is the killer, and will any of them survive?
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:
“The whole thing is utterly impossible and utterly fascinating. It is the most baffling mystery Agatha Christie has ever written.” — New York Times
“One of the most ingenious thrillers in many a day.” — Time magazine
“One of the very best, most genuinely bewildering Christies.” — The Observer (UK)
“There is no cheating; the reader is just bamboozled in a straightforward way from first to last….The most colossal achievement of a colossal career. The book must rank with Mrs. Christie’s previous best―on the top notch of detection.” — New Statesman (UK)
“The most astonishingly impudent, ingenious and altogether successful mystery story since The M**der of Roger Ackroyd.” — Daily Herald (UK)
“What Agatha Christie taught me was all about the delicate placement of the red herring. She was the ultimate genius behind ‘by indirections shall we find directions out.’ ” — Elizabeth George, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Lynley novels
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Born in Torquay in 1890, Agatha Christie began writing during the First World War and wrote over 100 novels, plays and short story collections. She was still writing to great acclaim until her death, and her books have now sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. Yet Agatha Christie was always a very private person, and though Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple became household names, the Queen of Crime was a complete enigma to all but her closest friends.
Where is it happening?
Bookstore1Sarasota, 117 S. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 23.53
