HUGH FRASER is known to millions as "Captain Hastings," assisting Poirot in A&E's Poirot and in the Agatha Christie PBS-TV Mystery! series. His other TV credits include "Wellington" in Sharpe's Company.

Ten house guests trapped on an isolated island are the prey of a diabolical killer. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion:Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine...

When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Clues and red herrings abound in this masterpiece, proven to be Christie's most popular mystery ever. It has been adapted to the screen three times.