Epilogue


 * EPILOGUE**

39. Look again at the book’s Epilogue. Who are the detectives in charge of solving these crimes?

The detectives in charge of solving the crime were named Sir Thomas Legge, and Inspector Maine. They were sent to investigate the crime.

Are they able to come up with any answers? Evaluate their success, identifying the points on which they are correct and those on which they are incorrect in their reconstruction of the events on Indian Island.

They are right to assume that; Vera was last to die, did not kill anyone, but not that she got hung by someone else. They are wrong that Dr. Armstrong might have killed everyone, but right that he was dragged out to sea. Right that Lombard was shot, but he did not shoot himself or kill anyone else. They are right that Blore did not kill himself, or anyone else. They are right that nobody left the island, and about the deaths ordering from the diarys. They are right about each persons background as well, and almost right about U.N Owen's motive. They were also right that there had to be a forth person on the island for it to make sense, and right that the killer had to be one of them. However all the evidence is contradicting, so they are not sure about the murderer.

40. Who is the murderer? How is his or her identity revealed?

The murderer is Justice Wargrave, before the letter I found out that he did it from the reference to "the hanging judge". You find this out for sure when a fisherman finds his confession letter, which Justice had thrown into the sea. In the letter he writes that he is the murderer, the guilty one. You also get this idea from the clues left behind from the author throughout the book.

41. Who is the mysterious Mr. Owen?

The mysterious of Mr. Owen is actually Justice Wargrave. Justice Wargrave pretended to be Mr. Owen, so that he would not be found out by the victims, and that they would not know who had invited them, and the police would have no information on him. Also so that for a while the characters suspect that the killer is Mr. Owen hiding on the island, or somewhere, and not start to suspect each other.

42. Were you satisfied with the novel’s conclusion? And were you surprised by it?

Yes I was satisfied, it tied together all the loose ends together and it didn't leave the mystery unsolved, it seemed to be unsolvable but it was really solvable which some people might have not figured out. If the story had no conclusion, or epilogue then most people would have just suspected Vera, or Lombard. I was not really surprised, because i looked at all the clues, and none of the characters really had motives, it couldn't have been nobody who killed Mr. Blore, I knew something was suspicious about Dr. Armstrong's death from the idea of the Red Herring.

43. Did you, as a reader and an armchair detective, find the ending fully credible and plausible? Did the murderer’s “confession” seem fitting and appropriate to you? Explain your answers.

The murderers confession seems like an appropriate answer to me, it fits perfectly. He wants to kill but feels it is wrong to kill people who don't deserve it, innocent people. So he takes up the career of a judge, through this he got to kill people in a way, and mostly guilty people. Justice Wargrave was teminanlly ill, but he "wanted to live before he died." He wanted to fufill his odd lust to kill people. So he decided to gather up some gulity people, people who could not be charged for their crimes. He enjoyed mystery books, so he came up with the ultimate plot, maybe with some ideas from his job as well. He remembers a poem from his childhood, sees the island, and then the story starts to un fold. It is all pretty smart, it all fits together, it all makes sense, it is like a real mystery, seemingly without an answer, it is also quite possible, except for some small details. I noticed clues that Justice Wargrave had done it too, which were nice, the red herrings added to the story.

Define the term “red herring”.

A red herring is any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue... Just like the "disappearance" of Dr. Armstrong. Another one is when Vera was screaming over the seaweed, and Dr. Armstrong make everyone think it was the murderer trying to kill her.

44. And Then There Were None is generally seen as one of the best mystery novels ever published. What are the clues in this mystery? What are the red herrings?

Chapter 1-3: Everyone is invited by different people, or U.N Owen. In this chapter you also get a brief look at their personallities. The reader finds out about the poem, which is foreshadowing in the story, the china figurines on the table are as well. Then the voice refers to the 10 people as "prisoners at the bar" that is a court term... The voice accuses each of them of committing a crime, the readers sees that they each have something in common, it is a clue. I also noticed that when Mr. Blore announced the letter might have finger prints the only one who did anything was Justice Wargrave, "Wargrave stared with sudden attention" The title of the record was swan song, which is a "farewell or final appearance, action, or work." Chapter 8-10: They discover that nobody is on the island but "their eight selves," which means one of them is the killer. The characters decide to hold an inquest, to see what evidence they have, to dicuss everything. It is taken over by Justice Wargrave, he obviously did that to get trust, to make everyone else not suspect him as much, and to keep the characters from making alliances, and trusting one another. Justice Wargrave makes them suspect each other. The characters also start to realize the poem is the same as what is going on, on the island. Later Chapters: In chapter 12 there was no major clues given, but I noticed that the Justice had told the people to search around, investigate, but at this point he tells them that there is no point in searching for the revolver, he says that nobody would be able to find it. I think this is suspicious. Epilogue: The detectives find some things out, but they are not really important. The police find some information that is new to us, like how the chair was placed against the wall after Veras hanging. This part of the book is where the author reveals all... You even get a peek into the murderers mind, how they killed everyone, and who it was. Wargrave writes that there were three clues left, one that he was the only innocent one, two that the docters death was accociated with a red herring, and three that he was basicly the only one who could inspire people, to lead.