Lombard’s revolver reappeared in his bedside dresser drawer. Soon after, Dr.Armstrong went missing. The last three assumed it was because he was the murderer. Mr.Blore, the ex-cop, was found with a heavy marble piece, shaped like a bear, dropped on his head from above. The last two left, Vera Claythorne and Philip Lombard, found Dr.Armstrong drowned, his body wedged between rocks on the beach. They dragged him out of the water’s way. Vera stole Lombard’s revolver and murdered him there in cold blood. At that point, the reader usually believes that Vera was the murderer of the rest as well. But she was under the influence of drugs administered by another person, and hung herself, her head swirling with thoughts that hanging herself was what …show more content…
I knew there couldn’t be another person on the island, but I didn’t know which one had done it, or have any idea how. Eventually, between his efforts to keep everyone suspicious of each other, his death being different from the others, Armstrong’s disappearance and death immediately following it, and his innocence for his “legal murder”, it had to be Justice Wargrave. I didn’t read the epilogue disclosing the murderer and their methods until I came up with a firm accusation, which took about a day. I noticed, after reading said epilogue, how methodic the order of murders was planned out. He got the stupid person and the only good people there out of the way first, kicking off his “murder fest”. Then, he made sure they suspected everyone, keeping them from creating alliances. When they accused Brent, he killed her, leaving them at square one as to who the killer was. He continued to follow his nursery rhyme, using and manipulating Dr.Armstrong, the one who was examining the bodies, to fake his own death and create a red herring, the one that “swallowed” the doctor; when they met on a seaside cliff, Wargrave pushed him off. He had selected Vera for a very good reason. He knew that if he scared her enough, she would be capable of outright killing. She shot Lombard, and, under the influence of Wargrave’s drugs, hung herself. He wrote a letter describing his sickening feat, put it in a bottle, and tossed it into the sea. Finally, careful to preserve Vera’s fingerprints, he shot