the book and its adaptations have been released under various new names since the original publication, including ten little indians (1946 play, broadway performance and 1964 paperback book), ten little soldiers and official title per the agatha christie limited website, "and then there were none". uk editions continued to use the work's original title until the 1980s; the first uk edition to use the alternative title "and then there were none" appeared in 1985 with a reprint of the 1963 fontana paperback.