Ten Little Indians is Agatha Christie's stage adaptation of her own novel And Then There Were None, in which ten strangers, each secretly harboring guilt over a past crime that escaped legal punishment, are lured under false pretenses to an isolated island mansion by a mysterious, absent host. As a recorded voice accuses each guest of murder, the guests begin to die one by one in a manner mirroring the verses of a sinister nursery rhyme displayed in the house, and the survivors realize with mounting terror that the killer must be one of their own dwindling number. Cut off from the mainland with no possibility of outside help, the remaining guests turn on each other, suspicion and paranoia eroding what little trust remains as the body count climbs. Christie's airtight closed-circle mystery structure, in which the murderer can only be among the trapped characters themselves, is considered one of the most ingenious in crime fiction. The play's relentless tension and shocking, methodical eliminations have made it one of the most produced mystery-thrillers in the world, a staple for theaters seeking a gripping ensemble whodunit.

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