And Then There Were None for children to use when selecting one child for a game. The serialized version appeared in the "Saturday Evening Post" in seven parts from 20 May (Volume 211, Number 47) to 1 July 1939 (Volume 212, Number 1) with illustrations by Henry Raleigh, and the book was published in January 1940 by Dodd, Mead and Company for $2. In the original UK novel all references to "Indians" or "Soldiers" were originally "Nigger", including the island's name, the pivotal rhyme found by the visitors, and the ten figurines. (In Chapter 7, Vera Claythorne becomes semi-hysterical at the mention by Miss Brent
And Then There Were None of "our black brothers", which is understandable only in the context of the original name.) UK editions changed to the current definitive title in 1985. The word "nigger" was already racially offensive in the United States by the start of the 20th century, and therefore the book's first US edition and first serialization changed the title to "And Then There Were None" and removed all references to the word from the book, as did the 1945 motion picture. This is the best selling crime novel of all time, and what makes Agatha Christie the best selling novelist. It is Christie's