|
Synopsis
Ten people find themselves stranded in the
lonely house on Soldier Island when their supposed hosts send word
that they have been detained. A mysterious voice, afterwards
discovered to have come from a gramophone record, indicts each one
of them - the eight guests and the two servants - of murder. It
transpires that no-one has met their hosts and that they have
evidently been decoyed to the island.
First one and then another
dies; each death according to the rhyme of "Ten Little Soldier
Boys", and with each death one of the little china figurines on the
mantelplace is found broken. The tension grows as they realize that
the killer is, in fact, one of themselves. Eventually only two
little soldier boys are left; the real
killer appears (his death having been feigned) and the remaining two
are able to outwit him. |
