<P> After dinner, a gramophone record accuses the ten non-player characters of getting away with murder . Moments later, Anthony Marston dies after drinking a poisoned cocktail . That night, Ethel Rogers dies of a drug overdose in her sleep . The deaths are initially thought to be suicides or accidents until, after the death of General MacArthur, Judge Wargrave determines that they are actually murders and that the host, U.N. Owen, is most likely the killer . Wargrave further speculated that Owen must be one of the remaining 8, and is following the pattern of the nursery rhyme over the fireplace, "Ten Little Sailor Boys". After each murder, one of the ten figurines in the dining room goes missing . Naracott is now established as the detective of the group since his presence on the island was not expected by the killer . It is also discovered that Lombard has brought a self - defense revolver to the island . </P> <P> After the deaths of Thomas Rogers' by axe and Emily Brent from anaphylactic shock from a bee sting, Lombard announces that his revolver has been stolen, and a search for it is fruitless . Naracott discovers he has been poisoned with the fictional drug Solidamide, but he obtains a remedy: a bottle of the fictional "Bellman's Universal Application". During a blackout after dinner that night, Wargrave is killed by a shot to the head . In the morning, however, Wargrave's body is missing along with Armstrong, whose drowned body will later wash up on the shore . Wargrave's body also turns up later in the screening room, but looks to have been bludgeoned, rather than shot . Later that day Blore is found to have been killed by having his head caved in by a clock . </P> <P> Naracott returns to the house to find that the killer is Emily Brent, who is really the famous actress Gabrielle Steele . Steele wanted Wargrave killed because he sentenced her true love to death . She would torture him first by killing those around him first, all criminals who had gotten away with their crimes, and she explains how she killed each one . She had faked her own death earlier . </P> <P> There are four different endings depending on whether Vera and Phillip--one, both, or neither--are saved . If Phillip is saved, he will reveal that his name is actually Charles Morley, a friend of Lombard's who assumed his identity when the real Phillip Lombard committed suicide out of guilt for his past crime . If Vera is saved, she and Naracott return to Sticklehaven (with Morley, if he also survives), where Vera explains her innocence of the crime the gramophone accused her of . If either Vera or Morley (or both) are saved, their statements to the police will clear Naracott and his brother . If neither of them survive, the Naracott brothers make their escape from the police . If Vera survives, she and Naracott decide to get married . </P>

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