And Then There Were None: Difference between revisions

Any serious mystery fan knows this one by heart: [[Ten Little Murder Victims|Ten people, strangers to each other, are summoned to an island]]. There, a mysterious recording accuses each one of being the cause of another's death, and one by one, murders start cropping up among them, each one executed in a fashion similar to those in the "Ten Little Indians" rhyme. The remaining ones come to the only possible conclusion: the murderer(ess?) must be one of them. Paranoia and suspicion run high, as each person tries to outwit the killer at his or her game. Which one of them cannot be trusted? And how long will it be before the next Indian is offed...?

 

* Dr. Edward Armstrong, a medical doctor. Accused of causing the death of a patient by operating on her while drunk.

* William Blore, a former policeman who tends to be too bold for his good. Accused of causing the death of an innocent man by planting false evidence and landing him in prison where he died.

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* [[Acquitted Too Late]]: The [[Trope Namer]]; Judge Wargrave remarks that only the dead are above suspicion. {{spoiler|However, it's more of an [[Invoked Trope]] here than a straight example; once the "death proves innocence" idea is set in the party's minds, the killer fakes their own death to throw suspicion off themselves.}}

* [[Asshole Victim]]: ''None'' of the victims is exactly an innocent, though a few [[Sympathetic Murderer|are sympathetic to varying degrees.]]

* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Played straight with Philip Lombard and Vera Claythorne {{spoiler|with disastrous results, as she shoots him to death.}}

 

* [[Bladder of Steel]]: If you want to listen to the culprit's entire [[Motive Rant]] at the end of the game, you'd ''better'' make a quick trip to the bathroom first.

* [[The Butler Did It]]: Invoked in the game by Blore when you ask him who he thinks did it. {{spoiler|It's still averted, however.}}