And Then There Were None

The outcome of the mystery was not predictable. Agatha Christie had made sure it was not obvious who was the murderer. Justice Wargrave was trying hard to find out who the murderer was and he wanted the gun to be locked up. He was like the leader trying to figure out who the killer was and was also the first person in the group to say that someone in the group was a maniac murderer. He lead group meetings at the island and acted in a way like a judge. The detective in the mystery was him, and no one really suspected him. He acted just like all of them, he was suspicious of all of them, and he played the act of not trusting anyone. He was also the one that suggests that no one should be alone during the day so that the killer can not strike. He plots all this out and to make it even better, he creates a fake death. He fakes his death by making the doctor tell them that he was shot. No one really went and checked, they were just really confused. Here is a quotation when he had his fake death, "Dr. Armstrong raised the limp hand and felt for the pulse. Then he turned to the others. He said---and his voice was expressionless, dead, far away, 'He's been shot...'" (131). After that, the readers probably immediately threw him out of the list of the killers because he was dead, and the doctor said it, but what they really did not know was that the doctor was part of the plan also. People could of pointed to Justice Wargrave a little bit in the beginning, but when he died, he was forgotten. The mystery was not at all predictable.