The Perfect Murder In And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie

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In the novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, Justice Wargrave creates the perfect murder. He gathers ten suspects that he thinks are guilty of a crime, but never were touched by the law. He wants to kill them because of two things; he wants to satisfy his desire to kill, and to bring justice to the ten guilty people. Christie shows this through the nursery rhyme, Wargrave’s letter, and the gramophone record.
Christie uses the nursery rhyme to show that Wargrave wants to satisfy his desire to kill. Wargrave chooses the poem because it is ten people dying and there were none left. Exactly how he plans his murder. He bases his murder off the poem so it seems as if he is having fun while doing it. Christie writes, “Ten little indians

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