<P> He describes how his first victim was Isaac Morris, the sleazy lawyer and drugs trafficker who anonymously purchased the island and arranged the invitations on his behalf, making nine murders and two suicides. Morris was poisoned before Wargrave departed for the island . Wargrave's intention is to stymie the police as to which person on the island was the murderer . He states that, although there are three clues that could guide the police to the correct killer, he is confident they will be unable to find them and that the mystery will remain unsolved until the confession is read . </P> <P> The following details of the characters are based on the original novel published in England . </P> <Ul> <Li> Anthony James Marston, a handsome but amoral and irresponsible young man, killed two young children (John and Lucy Combes) while driving recklessly, for which he felt no real remorse and accepted no personal responsibility, complaining only that his driving licence had been suspended as a result . He was the first island victim . </Li> <Li> Mrs Ethel Rogers, the cook / housekeeper and Thomas Rogers' wife, described as a pale and ghost - like woman who walks in mortal fear . She was dominated by her bullying husband, who coerced her into agreeing to withhold the medicine of a former employer (Miss Jennifer Brady, an elderly spinster) in order that they might collect an inheritance they knew she had left them in her will . Mrs Rogers was the second victim . </Li> <Li> General John Gordon MacArthur, a retired World War I war hero, who sent his late wife's lover (a younger officer, Arthur Richmond) to his death by assigning him to a mission where it was practically guaranteed he would not survive . Leslie MacArthur had mistakenly put the wrong letters in the envelopes on one occasion when she wrote to both men at the same time . The general accepts that no one will leave the island alive . </Li> <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 . </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 teenage 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 . The murderer put a bee into the room, in addition to murder by poison . ("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 . </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 . He arrived under the alias "Davis" from South Africa, 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 admits the truth to Lombard . </Li> <Li> Philip Lombard, a soldier of fortune . Literally down to his last square meal, he comes to the island with a loaded revolver, as suggested by his invitation letter . Lombard is accused of causing the deaths of a number of East African tribesmen, after stealing their food and abandoning them to their deaths . Neither he nor Marston feels any remorse . Lombard fulfilled the ninth referenced verse of the rhyme, shot to death on the beach by Vera, ("One got frizzled up ..."). He is the only one to theorize that UN Owen might be Wargrave, but the others reject this . He and Vera are the only guests not killed by Justice Wargrave . </Li> <Li> Vera Elizabeth Claythorne, a cool, efficient, resourceful young woman who is on leave from her position as a sports mistress at a third - rate girls' school . She has largely worked at secretarial jobs ever since her job as a governess was ended by the death of her charge, Cyril Hamilton . Claythorne let the boy drown so his uncle Hugo Hamilton could inherit the family estate and marry her . Hugo rejected her when he suspected her crime . In the penultimate scene of the novel, she takes Lombard's gun, and shoots him dead . She returns to the house, relieved she has survived . When she goes to her room, she finds a readied noose, complete with chair beneath it, suspended from a hook hanging from the ceiling . </Li> <Li> Justice Lawrence John Wargrave, a retired judge, known as a "hanging judge" for liberally awarding the death penalty in murder cases . Wargrave is accused of influencing the jury to hand a guilty verdict to Edward Seton, a man many thought was innocent of his crime of killing an old woman, and sentencing him to death unfairly . As the two policemen discuss at Scotland Yard, new evidence after Seton's execution proved Seton's guilt . He admits in his postscript that he has a lifelong hidden sadistic urge to cause death . Finding himself terminally ill, he devises and carries out this plot . </Li> <Li> Isaac Morris is an unethical lawyer hired by Wargrave to purchase the island (under the name UN Owen), arrange the gramophone recording, and make arrangements on his behalf, including gathering information on the near destitute Philip Lombard, to whom he gave some money to get by and recommended Lombard bring his gun to the island . Morris's is the first death, as he died before the guests arrived on the island . Morris was responsible for the addiction and suicide of a young woman through his narcotics activities . The victim was the daughter of a friend of Wargrave . He accepts Wargrave's lethal cocktail of pills, as something that would help him . </Li> <Li> Fred Narracott, the boatman who delivered the guests to the island . After doing so, he does not appear again in the story, although Inspector Maine notes it was Narracott who, sensing something seriously amiss, returned to the island as soon as the weather allowed, before he was scheduled to do, and found the bodies . Maine speculates that it was the normalcy and ordinariness of the guests that convinced Narracott to do so and ignore his orders to dismiss any signals requesting help . </Li> <Li> Sir Thomas Legge and Inspector Maine, two Scotland Yard detectives who discuss the case in the epilogue . They reason out the events of the case, but are stymied as to which was the murderer until the confession comes to light . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Anthony James Marston, a handsome but amoral and irresponsible young man, killed two young children (John and Lucy Combes) while driving recklessly, for which he felt no real remorse and accepted no personal responsibility, complaining only that his driving licence had been suspended as a result . He was the first island victim . </Li>

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