<Li> Thomas Rogers, the butler and Ethel Rogers' husband . He dominated his weak - willed wife, and they killed their former elderly employer by withholding her medicine, causing the woman to die from heart failure, thus inheriting the money she bequeathed them in her will . Despite his wife's death, Rogers was still serving the others . In that capacity, he was killed when bludgeoned with an axe as he cut firewood in the woodshed . ("One chopped himself in halves ...") </Li> <Li> Emily Caroline Brent, an elderly, religiously rigid, socially respectable spinster who accepted the vacation on Soldier Island largely due to financial constraints . Years earlier, she had dismissed her young maid, Beatrice Taylor, for becoming pregnant out of wedlock . Beatrice, who had already been rejected by her parents for the same reason, drowned herself, which Miss Brent considered an even worse sin . She refuses to discuss the matter with the gentlemen, telling them, "I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience . I have nothing with which to reproach myself ." Later, she confides what happened regarding Beatrice Taylor to Vera Claythorne, who tells the others shortly before Miss Brent is found dead herself . She was sedated with chloral hydrate in her coffee, leaving her disorientated, before being injected in the neck with potassium cyanide while left alone in the kitchen, with one of Dr Armstrong's hypodermic syringes . The murderer also put a bee into the room . ("A bumblebee stung one ...") </Li> <Li> Dr Edward George Armstrong, a Harley Street doctor, responsible for the death of a patient, Louisa Mary Clees, after he operated on her while drunk many years earlier . Armstrong is asked by Justice Wargrave to help fake his death, on the pretext that this will leave the judge free to find the killer, but is fooled in doing so--while rendezvousing with the judge at night on a rocky cliff, the judge asks him if he sees a cave . When Armstrong looks, he is pushed by the other man into the sea, and is killed . ("A red herring swallowed one ..."). His body goes missing for a while, leading the others to believe that he is the killer, but his corpse washes ashore at the end of the novel, sparking the final confrontation between Vera Claythorne and Philip Lombard in which the latter is killed . </Li> <Li> William Henry Blore, a former police inspector and now a private investigator, was accused of falsifying his testimony in court for a bribe from a dangerous criminal gang, which resulted in an innocent man, James Landor, being convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment . Landor, who had a wife and young child, died shortly afterwards in prison . Using the alias "Davis" and claiming to have arrived from South Africa, as he was instructed to do, he is on the island for "security work". His true name is revealed on the gramophone recording . He denies the accusation against him from the gramophone recording, but later privately admits the truth to Lombard . He was crushed by a bear - shaped clock dropped from Vera's bedroom window onto the terrace below . ("A big bear hugged one ...") </Li>

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