Ka-pi96 said:
Was that an Agatha Christie reference or something then? I don't watch her so I didn't get that reference. I just thought it was a weird line since I was thinking 'but who would have executed the last one then?' |
She's an author, responsible for some of the most famous mystery novels of all time. "And Then There Were None" has sold more than 100 million copies world wide and is in the top 5 best selling novels ever. "Murder on the Orient Express" is also very well known.
In "And Then There Were None," a group of strangers are brought to a secluded island under the pretense that they've lucked into a wonderful vacation. When they arrive, however, they learn that it's a trap and that they're cut off from the rest of the world. Eventually they realize that everyone in the group is guilty of something and that someone in the group or in hidding is knocking them off one by one in the name of justice. As might be expected, this leads to everyone being suspicious of everyone else, as they all attempt to find the killer before all of them are murdered. As far as what Lovepon said, I'll explain that in spoiler tags because it's a reference to the end of the novel.
Complete Spoiler for the end of the book, only read if you don't care -- One of the big twists at the end is that the murderer also considers themselves guilty and has arranged for their own death in such a way that it looks like they were a victim, as well. They were also "executed" for their crimes, meaning that no one made it off the island. It's kind of funny that the twist is given away right in the title (though that's not the original name of the book).
