This book has been adapted to make bollywood films like Gumnaam and many hollywood films too. Such is the aura of this book. It is very engaging right from the beginning where all the characters of the book receive respective letters asking them to reach an island. The incidents resulting into murders on the island with nobody else except the characters of the story present there are quite fresh which keep the readers guessing about the murderer. Almost nobody could ever guess the culprit till the last which makes this book a must read for all crime thriller and mystery lovers. It is one of the best works of Agatha Christie.