How Does Agatha Christie Create Tension In And Then There Were None A Mystery

“One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer” (Christie). The novel And Then There Were None is a mystery based on ten characters who are unfamiliar with one another and isolated on an island as each of them die not knowing who the killer is. Throughout this novel Agatha Christie was able to use conflict to make the mystery enthralling, while creating a puzzling mindset. Conflict is seen everywhere in this novel, even in the beginning in chapter one when “Dr.Armstrong nearly went into the hedge” (Christie 13), due to the fact that Tony Marston was speeding and pushed him off the road. From this moment on the book built itself on conflict. Conflict not only created the tension but it created accusations and made the characters