Agatha Christie's Darkest Adaptation Is a 3-Part Murder Mystery Done Right

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No one mastered the whodunit with quite as much cerebral agility as Agatha Christie . That's the furthest thing from a controversial statement, but widespread celebration doesn't make the mind of the world's most popular fiction author less singular. Given the wealth of spine-tingling mysteries in her catalog, there's an excellent chance that more adaptations of the Queen of Crime's bibliography exist than entries in her formidable catalog (66 novels, dozens of short stories). It's fitting, then, that no novel has been more riffed upon than 1939's And Then There Were None — the best-selling book of all time and the epochal classic regarded as Christie's crowning jewel .