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And Then There Was No One trilogy, the title is again a variation on an Agatha Christie novel, "And Then There Were None". As opposed to the other novels in the trilogy, in "And Then There Was No One" there is a definitive shift away from the murder mystery and its solution toward "self-referentiality", toward the author and his or her problems. One aspect is plagiarism, which at one point is even discussed as a possible motive for Slavorigin's murder; another is the author's choice of subject. In the years before his violent death, Slavorigin had been in hiding as he had published several essays critical