An Unpleasant Resolution

Author's Note: Conflicts are just naturally part of books, but how they are resolved is the best part.  Resolutions can't all be sunshine and rainbows; if that's what you want, you should go read a Disney Fairy Tale.  Agatha Christie demonstrates that there isn't always a happy ending.

In Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None there are many minor conflicts, but there's really only one prominent major conflict.  Ten people are trapped on an island and they are the only people on this island, but they are dying one by one.  There is a poem, "Ten Little Indian Boys" and the murders follow the sequence closely.  The murders are brutal and these unknowing fools walked right into the trap.  These people must find out who's doing this and how to stop them before it's too late.

Sadly time is not on their side, and it's too late.  One by one these people are killed.  Down to the last woman, Vera Claythorne.   Her death was purely psychological torment. She was so beyond sanity, that she hanged herself, with the noose and the chair waiting in her room for her.  There's still more though, as you might suspect, the murderer was one of them and he simply faked his own death earlier so he would be cleared of suspicion and could move forward with his morbid plan.  Mr. Justice Wargrave set this all up and successfully set up the perfect unsolvable murder, completing his lifelong goal.  After that he wrote down his whole plan, sent out to see in a bottle and shot himself.  It truly was an unsolvable murder.