What does this mean? and it is from And then there were none?

Question

Each character from this story had a crime that there were being accused of what were the crimes?

Answer 1

Yes, it's from And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.

Below is a list of the crimes committed by the ten guests to Soldier Island:

Anthony Marston ran over and killed two children while driving recklessly.

Mr. and Mrs. Rogers let their invalid employer die by withholding her medication, in order to claim a large inheritance.

General John MacArthur sent his wife's lover on a suicidal mission during World War I.

Emily Brent dismissed her maid after she became pregnant; the maid later committed suicide.

Justice Lawrence Wargrave gave the death penalty to accused murderer Edward Seton despite evidence supporting his innocence.

Dr. Edward Armstrong performed a surgical operation while drunk and accidentally killed his patient.

Inspector William Blore committed perjury during the trial of an accused bank robber, who died in prison.

Phillip Lombard abandoned a party of twenty-one native retainers to die in the African bush.

Vera Claythorne allowed Cyril Hamilton, a small boy in her care, to swim out to sea and drown; the boy was in the way of an inheritance which went to her lover, Hugo Hamilton, who later left her since he suspected her of deliberately causing the death of the boy whom he was very fond of.

Answer 2

ten little indians; extortion, murder, prostitution, polygamy, theft, blackmail, corruption,