And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie (1939)

In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr Justice Margrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times.

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And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Soldier Island.

Signed: Lawrence Wargrave.