And Then There Were None : The World's Favourite Agatha Christie Book John W. Rittinghouse artistic devotion and the tensions

artistic devotion and the tensions between East and West--back cover

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where a unique mix of authoritarian Islam and Western-style consumerism creates quite possibly the ultimate postmodern society

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And Then There Were None : The World's Favourite Agatha Christie Book John W. Rittinghouse artistic devotion and the tensionsThe book that topped the international online poll held in Agatha Christies 125th birthday year to discover which of her 80 crime books was the worlds favourite. 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U. N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. When one of the party dies