Selv har forfatteren kommenteret baggrunden for plottet således:
:"(I) had written the book Ten Little Niggers because it was so difficult to do that the idea had fascinated me. Ten people had to die without it becoming ridiculous or the murderer being obvious. I wrote the book after a tremendous amount of planning, and I was pleased with what I had made of it. It was clear, straightforward, baffling, and yet had a perfectly reasonable explanation; in fact, it had to have an epilogue in order to explain it. It was well received and reviewed, but the person who was really pleased with it was myself, for I knew better than any critic how difficult it had been... I don't say it is the play or book of mine that I like best, or even that I think it is my best, but I do think in some ways that it is a better piece of craftsmanship than anything else I have written."
<ref>[http://christiecoverart.blogspot.dk/search/label/Ten%20Little%20Niggers Agatha Christie Cover Art, hentet den 28.12 2014, Citeret fra Christiecoverart]</ref>
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