How could it have stuck more to the ending in the novel? **SPOILERS!**
So this is the one version that comes close to the ending of the novel, and hurray for that, but I'm still not convinced the Judge committed a perfect crime. In the book, the penultimate chapter involved a pair of detectives scratching their heads on how ten murdered bodies ended up on the island, and the mystery is solved when someone reads the Judge's solution after it was thrown in the sea in a bottle. But if they were to make a film EXACTLY like the ending of the book, how would it be handled? Have the detectives discussing the mystery at the beginning? It would have to be in a way that the Judge committed nine perfect murders and a suicide that appeared to be a murder. Works out well on paper, but what about on screen?
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