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Maybe We'll Do 'The Mousetrap' Instead
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A high school was going to stage the Agatha Christie novel and play "And Then There Were None," but they aren't going to do that anymore. Why? Because "And Then There Were None" was not the original name of that book. And neither was "Ten Little Indians." No, the original name was "Ten Little Indians" except that instead of Indians, the title featured the N-word." It was a different time in a different country, and the book never appeared in the U.S. under that name (even in the 1930s, publishers knew that was a bad, bad idea). But that's the history, and whether that's enough to disqualify the story from being staged in 2017 is what they're debating now. (NJ Advance Media/NJ.com)
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