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This page was somewhat surprising and yet I really liked it. I just feel like the words fit together like a puzzle. Have you found any other pages like this? I just really like the way this ended but I still wonder who U.N. Owen is/was.
-Eva

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This is a good accusation. I was also thinking that maybe Lombard did it because he went to get more brandy.
-Kaia

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I thought this as well. I think that everyone just kinda went crazy and killed each other. But if that's true, who is U.N. Owen?
-Eva

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On page 232, Blore is super convinced that he is NOT going to die. I think he will die because he is convinced that he won't. I think the murderer will go for the weak, and since Blore refuses to sleep, he will be weak.
-Megan

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On page 230, Vera thinks to herself about the person she "killed." This person died "going out to sea." That is how the 7th victim died in the poem. I think this is a clue that Vera is the 7th victim of the murderer. (Not a response!)
-Megan

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I agree with Eva. No one else died of drinking something in the poem. Justice Wargrave had to be the next one to die because of the poem.
-Megan

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I think that every person was killed by someone different, except the last two people. All of the evidences that we have brought up would make a lot of sense, so I think that everyone is guilty. On page 228, the author leads us to think that the murderer is Lombard, on page 203, it was Armstrong. Everyone seems suspicious at one point, even Mrs. Rogers
-Megan

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On page 228, it says that Lombard has the revolver right after the justice was killed by the revolver. I know this would make him look like the murderer, but I think that the author would not make it so obvious if it was a clue. (Not a response!)
-Megan

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On page 221, it says, "...you came up the stairs behind me," when Blore is talking to Armstrong. I think if Armstrong is behind Blore, he could have murderer Justice Wargrave. (Not a response!)
-Megan

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What did you guys think of the end of the book? Was it surprising? I personally really liked the ending and thought it was perfect for this book. I loved how Vera was so crazy in the end and I think it's perfect for someone who's been through all of that. I don't think I would have predicted that's how the book was going to end and that just made the ending so much better.
-Eva

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I kinda think Lombard might be the murderer. We don't suspect him that much and maybe that's what the author wanted. Maybe she was using a bunch of red herrings to distract us. It also says on page 228 that Lombard had the revolver.
-Eva

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I still stand by my idea. He overreacted to the accusation putting him in a spot to be the murderer.
-Kaia

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The test for all of them was to check their persons and their rooms. I think the author just didn't want to write down every single detail of searching their rooms.
-Megan

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I think that Justice will be the victim, not the murderer. He seems like he is suspecting Dr. Armstrong. I think Dr. Armstrong is the murderer, so it he thinks someone suspects him, he might kill him.
-Megan

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It says they submitted to the same test, but it does not give any details as to how thoroughly it was done.
-Kaia

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This could be a possibilty but I think that Blore isn't really likely to the be murderer. I think he was just trying to clear his name.
-Eva

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Actually, the text does say that all of the people were checked along with their rooms.
-Megan

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I completely agree. Vera and Armstrong are the most likely suspects, I think.
-Megan

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I agree with this. Also Dr. Armstrong just seems really suspicious to me.
-Eva

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On page 203,  Armstrong confirmed that the murder of Emily Brent was done with a syringe. I think Dr. Armstrong knew to make a mess out of his room because anyone else who went into his room would probably not make a mess because they are trying to keep it a secret. I think Dr. Armstrong is the murderer. (Not a response!)
-Megan

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On the pages 219 and 220, Blore offers Vera brandy. When Vera declines because she is suspicious. Blore gets all mad because  he is claiming he isn't the murderer. Maybe he is mad because he wanted to kill Vera but it didn't happen.
-Kaia

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On page 213, one person leaves the room while the others stay in. This may give time for the murderer to set up the next murder. This points to the fact the murder may happen soon.
-Kaia

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On page 212, it says Vera is very quiet. This evidence may reveal that she is quiet because she is thinking about murdering, and maybe regrets that she killed people if she is the murderer.
-Kaia

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On page 34, it states one person dies from law. Justice Wargrave works in law, so he may be the victim or the murderer, either or.
-Kaia

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On page 207, one of the three men, not Lombard, could be the murderers because the text does not say their rooms were searched.
-Kaia

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On page 199, Emily is acting strange, proving that the murderer could have given her a chemical. Dr. Armstrong knows chemicals the best, so he may be murdering people.
-Kaia

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On page 198, Emily feels giddy. Since the next soldier boy dies of a bee sting, she may have gotten stung.
-Kaia

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In the poem, it says, "Four little soldier boys going out to sea, a red herring swallowed one and then there were three." I am wondering if they mean red herring as in the "clue" instead of the bird. This could be a clue as to how #4 dies.
-Megan

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I think there is another red herring about Philip on page 140. It seems as though he and Mr. Blore are trying to blame Dr. Armstrong for the murder of Mrs. Rogers, trying to get the blame off of himself. I think this is a red herring because I am almost positive that Philip is not the murderer because it seems too obvious.
-Megan

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On page 140, Mr. Blore is talking to Lombard and Armstrong about the deaths and his face gets really red. I think this could be a clue to the fact that Blore is the murderer.
-Megan

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"'Look here, doctor, you did give her some dope you know.'" On page 140, Dr. Armstrong confesses that he gave Mrs. Rogers a sedative the night before she died. I think he is suspicious because maybe he didn't put a sedative, but gave her something else that would kill her.
-Megan

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On page 140, Blore, Lombard, and Armstrong are all trying to make sense of the deaths. They are all trying to convince themselves that it was suicide. I think the murderer is any of them because they are trying to make themselves feel better about the deaths and convince the other two that it was suicide.
-Megan

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I am wondering where they would put all the dead bodies. Does the murderer dispose of them? I don't think that they could without revealing themselves. Mrs. Rogers was just laying in bed on page 135, even though she had died. This could be a clue.
-Megan

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I kinda agree and kinda disagree at the same. I do think Emily is a cold person but she is also very religious. She says on page she 174 and 175 that one of them is possessed with a devil. I don't think she'd write that if she was the murderer. To be that religious and called yourself 'demon-possessed' is a little far fetched but I guess anything is possible.
-Eva

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Emily Brent wrote in her journal that Beatrice Taylor is the murderer. Beatrice Taylor was the girl Brent 'killed'. I thought maybe this was a connection to Vera being the murderer because Vera was the only one who knew about the whole story behind Taylor. I know that's a little farfetched  but why else would Emily write that? Is she just crazy?
-Eva

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I also agree. I never caught this but it makes sense.
-Eva

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I disagree with you. I don't think any of them are going to end up leaving island. The end of the poem says "one little soldier boy left all alone; he went and hanged himself and then there were none." I think this means none of them are going to leave the island.
-Eva

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I agree with you, Kaia. Also in the book I think it mentioned somewhere that it was a very poor likeliness that it was Blore. I could be wrong on that, however.

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When Vera went hysterical on page 186 I think it was a sign that she could possibly be the murderer. When someone kills someone they are usually out of their mind in that moment and moments surrounding. Sometimes they do thing they can't explain. This would  explain why Vera went hysterical. Another reason why I think the killer might be Vera is because she has the whole poem memorized. It was something from her childhood. Could this possibly be a clue?-Eva

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I disagree. Anyone on the island could find the rope. Also, Blore would not hold onto the rope forever, would he?
-Kaia

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On page 131, it says, "Blore returned from the house with a rope coiled around his arm..." The last person in the poem hanged himself. Blore could be the murderer because he will be the last person on the island and then he will hang himself with the rope.
-Megan

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I completely agree. Maybe Dr. Armstrong tries to kill a wasp nest and doesn't succeed and ends up getting killed by a sting.
-Megan

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I also agree. It was just a thought. Though, Lombard may be the murderer and kills himself with the gun when he is the last one.
-Kaia

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Yes! Also, Blore's day of judgement is near, as said in the beginning.
-Kaia

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All of the people are dying the same ways as the poem says. No one in the poem dies from someone shooting them, so I don't agree with this.
-Megan

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Lombard is talking about his revolver on  pg. 142. Maybe this is foreshadowing that he will kill someone
-Kaia

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This is an interesting thought. I think that Blore will be the one to die because Lombard or Armstrong are more likely to be the murderers.
-Megan

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Macarthur was acting weird on pg. 124, hinting that he wants to die. Maybe this is a foreshadow as to he dies.
-Kaia

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The initials of Owen are U.N.O. Uno in Spanish means 1, so maybe only one person will leave the island. On pg. 120
-Kaia

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The next person in the nursery rhyme after 8 dies by travelling Devon. Soldier Island is in Devon, and Blore, Lombard, and Armstrong were travelling around the island searching...
-Kaia

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When Blore, Lombard, and Armstrong are talking about Unknown being on the island, this may foreshadow that the Unknown is actually on the island.
-Kaia

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On page 116,  Dr. Armstrong states that potassium cyanide would be for someone to kill a wasps nests, and since the nursery rhyme may represent how people die, this could be a clue. In one of the lines a boy dies by bee stings.
-Kaia

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On page 112, Vera says Emily is terrible. Maybe this is a clue about Emily. It reveals to me Emily may be the murderer since she is so harsh and cold.
-Kaia

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I think Lombard is not the murderer. Knowing mystery books, usually they put one person in the book who is really bad and everyone thinks they committed the crime, but really, they didn't. On page 67, it says, "Story's quite true! I left 'em!" This would make everyone else very suspicious.
-Megan

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I think Mr. and Mrs. Owens could be the murderers because they invited everyone to the island, then played the recording about the murders, which would make everyone suspicious of each other. On page 76 it says, "...Potassium Cyanide. It acts pretty well instantaneously." The Owens very easily could have slipped something into Anthony's drink before anyone got there, not knowing who would drink it, but still knowing that 1 person would choke to death.
-Megan

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I think this is a red-herring. It just seems too obvious that people would think that since Philip left others to die, he would leave them to die, too. He also had a rough personality, but I think the author was trying to have one person seem like he was definitely the murderer, but all the while, it was someone else.
-Megan

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I think Dr. Armstrong the the murderer. When Anthony died, he told everyone it was suicide on page 77, but Anthony was not the kind of person to commit suicide. Also, when Mrs. Rogers died, he blamed that on suicide too. He said she probably took too much sleep medicine. I think he is trying to draw the attention away from himself.
-Megan

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I think Dr. Armstrong is the most suspicious suspect because on page 76 he knew that Potassium Cyanide had killed Anthony. He could have known that because he is a doctor or he could also know that because he is the person that put it in his drink.
-Megan

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I never thought of that but it kinda makes sense!  That's a really interesting thing to pick up on.
-Eva

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On page 92 Dr. Armstrong is having a dream that he has to kill someone. He doesn't know who it is but he just knows he has to kill them. It's like an impulse to kill them. He then finds out he has to kill Emily Brent. But this is just a dream. Or is it?
-Eva

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On page 84 Vera thinks "Death was for-other people..." By this does she mean the other people on island? Or just other people in general? I wonder if she's going to kill or hurt the other people on the island and maybe this is a clue?
-Eva

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On page 81 Rogers notices that there aren't 10 solder boy china figures anymore. It doesn't say exactly how many there are, but I'm gonna bet that once someone dies, another soldier boy china figure disappears. This goes back to my idea that the Ten Little Soldier Boys nursery rhyme might be linked somehow to the people on the island.
-Eva

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Death and Ten Little Soldier Boys nursery rhyme

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Death and Ten Little Soldier Boys nursery rhyme

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I think that this book is based off of a nursery rhyme. The rhyme that keeps popping up in the book Ten Little Soldier Boys. Everything that the poem says has happened so far - Anthony Marston choked himself and Mrs. Rogers never woke up from sleep. I wonder whats going to happen next.
-Eva

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I totally agree with this. I also think that all the people on the island might die.
-Eva

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I agree with this but it could also be a red-herring. However, later in the book on the pages 67-68 Lombard said he just left men to die. Could this be a possible clue?
-Eva

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On page 40, it says, "He moved like a panther, smoothly and noiselessly." I think this is a clue because it is saying that no one would notice what he did.
-Megan

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I disagree, about the murderer part. I believe that the person who sent them is slowly killing them off.
-Kaia

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On page 40, Macarthur says, "For two pins he'd make an excuse and get away." I think this is a clue that Macarthur is the murderer because he is basically saying he can easily make an excuse and no one would ever suspect him.
-Megan

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That's a really interesting thought. I wouldn't have thought that the peom would represent all the murders.
-Megan

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I also feel like it could be a red-herring because it seems to obvious.
-Megan

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She could! Though, that may be a red-herring. Maybe that is a clue as to if she dies.
-Kaia

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That is an interesting point. I would have never thought of that on my own.
-Kaia

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I think Vera could be the murderer because on page 33 is says, "It was the old nursery rhyme that she remembered from her childhood days." The nursery rhyme is about the people slowly dying. I think this is a clue because it relates to her and she will kill all the 10 people 1 by 1.
-Megan

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I think the fact that he said that and island is a world from which you might never return is saying that he is the murderer because he doesn't want anyone else to return home.
-Megan

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Armstrong states he may never return to his normal life. This may be a clue as to if he dies at the island. I think that he may die, as the author maybe was trying to say be foreshadowing. On pg.36.
-Kaia

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Vera seems sensitive to the word drowned. Since everyone has killed someone, maybe she killed somebody by drowning them. This would be a good explanation as to why she is so sensitive to that certain word. On pg. 35.
-Kaia

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This may be placed in the bathroom to represent everyone on soldier island. There are ten murders, and so that could represent it. On pg. 33-34.
-Kaia

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Maybe the Owens are late because they want one person dead before they get there. On the back cover, they get a message and apparently one of the guests is dead before the end of the night.
-Kaia

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Maybe Mr. Blore is special. He got told who is coming to the island and seemed to know who they are. This makes me suspicious of him, because Mr. Owens and Mrs. Owens trusted him enough to tell him. Maybe he might die because of all the information he knows. This is on pg. 15.
-Kaia

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I think one clue/foreshadow is when the author tells the reader that Blore's day of judgement is near on pg. 16. This gives evidence that Blore may die.
-Kaia

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I think the fact the his name is "Justice," and he is a judge, is a red herring. The author may be trying to make him look innocent, and that he just wants, "Justice."
-Kaia