And Then There Were None Week14

Sir Tomas Legge, Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard said that whole thing was incredible, ten people dead on an island and not a living soul on it, it didn’t make sense. Inspector Maine said that nevertheless it happened, somebody must have killed them.

Wargrave and Lombard were shot, the first through the head, the second through the heart. Miss Brent and Marston died of cyanide poisoning. Mrs. Rogers died of an overdose of chloral. Rogers’s head was split open. Blore’s head was crushed in. Armstrong died of drowning. Marcarthur’s skull was fractured by a blow on the back of the head and Vera Claythorne was hanged.

The AC said that the whole thing was fantastic impossible, ten people killed on a bare rock of an island and he didn’t know who did it, or why, or how. Maine said that he knew why, more or less. Some fanatic with a bee in U. N. Owen’s bonnet about justice, he was out to get people who were beyond the reach of law, it seemed to be the point which he dealt with cases that the law couldn’t touch, and he picked ten people whether they were really guilty or not didn’t matter. There were ten people to be executed. He accomplished his task and somehow or other he spirited himself off that island into thin air. However, the only explanation possible was that he was actually one of the ten.