And then there were none-Agatha Christie?

Question

How do each of the characters die in And Then There Were None

Answer 1

In the brackets are the lines of the rhyme that inspired the killings.

First to die is Anthony Marston, whose drink is poisoned with cyanide (one choked his little self). The next morning, Mrs. Rogers never wakes up, and is assumed to have received a fatal overdose of sleeping draught (one overslept himself). At lunchtime, General MacArthur, who had predicted that he would never leave the island alive, is found dead from a blow to the back of his head (one said he'd stay there).The next morning, Mr. Rogers is found dead in the woodshed, having been struck in the head with a large axe (one chopped himself in halves). Later that day, Emily Brent dies from an injection of potassium cyanide – the injection mark on her neck is an allusion to a bee sting (a bumblebee stung one). Wargrave, was supposedly dressed up in a judge's wig and gown, slumped against a chair with a gunshot wound in his forehead (one got into Chancery); he actually cshot himself after ensuring the other deaths. Blore is crushed by Vera's marble, bear-shaped clock (a big bear hugged one).Vera and Lombard find Armstrong's drowned body along the cliffs (a red herring swallowed one) and realize that they are the only two left; though neither could possibly have killed the Inspector, their mutual suspicion has driven them to the breaking point and each of them assumes the other to be the murderer. As they lift Armstrong's body out of reach of the water, Vera swipes Lombard's revolver, shoots him dead on the beach (out in the sun; or, one shot the other), and returns to her room, discovering a noose hanging from the ceiling and a chair underneath it. Having finally been driven mad (or "hypnotically suggestible") by the experience and latent remorse for her crime, Vera hangs herself, kicking the chair out from under her, fulfilling the final verse of the rhyme {And then there were none}.