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Outline of Play
Ten people of different social classes have been invited to a mansion on the fictional Soldier Island. Upon arriving, they are told that their hosts, a Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen, are currently away, but that the guests will be attended to by Thomas and Ethel Rogers. Each guest finds in his or her room an odd bit of bric-a-brac and a framed copy of the nursery rhyme "Ten Little Soldiers" hanging on the wall.
The guests realize they have been tricked into coming to the island, but find that they cannot leave: the boat which regularly delivers supplies has stopped arriving. They are murdered one by one, each murder paralleling a verse of the nursery rhyme.
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