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If not the judge, then...

posted 10 years ago by novastar_6
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The first time I picked up 10 little Indians to read, I just KNEW the judge was the killer, I don't remember why, just from the start there was something about him, which of course you get thrown off when he dies, but then at the end when you find out it actually was him, it's just that feeling of "I knew it all along!", somehow it just seemed too obvious the first time in. He almost seems too likely to be the guilty party, so, book or movie, if the judge hadn't turned out to actually be Mr. Owen, who do you think it would've been?

I can't say for the book, but in the movie, Emily Brent would get my vote because she's a perfectly dissociated, heartless, sociopathic bitch.

[–] LadyN1 10 years ago

Funny you say Emily Brent in the video game adaptation Emily Brent IS the killer.

Uh if it wasn't the judge I'd probably say General MacArthur as you could argue his zoning in and out and day dreaming could either be faked to give the impression of him being too frail to be clever enough to carry out the murders. Or a big clue from Agatha Christie to the reader that he is not in the fittest mental state and thus is insane enough to commit the murders in the manner he has. Also with his mila try background you could argue he has the physical strength and prowess to physically attack the victims as well as being a good enough tactician to effectively plan and put the detail such as following the rhyme of the murders. Plus you could argue after the third or fourth death ATTWN becomes like a war zone as everyone is battling to be the last little Indian victim standing. So pyschologically you could have argued he was recreating the harrowing mental torture of being in a war. Plus if the spin was he feels righteous and vindicated in murdering his wife and her lover than the motivation for condemning the guilty could work as his reason for doing it.

OR second choice would be Blore because he is perceived as the most stupid of the characters and therefore could actually the smartest plus it could be that he was a private detective but was fired for whatever reason. Bit maintained a twisted sense of justice and doing right including killing the victims of cases he had tried to solve while doing his police work.

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[–] omk2014 10 years ago

You should put a spoiler alert at the start of your post.