Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past theyre unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate for each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the bloodbath begins; one by one, they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme about Ten Little Soldier Boys. In writing the stage version of one of her most successful and darkest novels during the Second World War, Agatha Christie responded to the mood of the times by introducing a more positive ending. The play was a smash hit in the West End and on Broadway.