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Death on the Nile
- 276 pages · about 5 hours
- First published 1937
- 188 editions
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1 About this book
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway ( Linnet Doyle) had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, rich and beautiful. A girl who had everything... until she lost her life.
Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed...
- Private investigators
- Mystery
- Murder
- Historical fiction
- Crime
- Mystery & detective, traditional
- Thrillers, crime
- Travel
2 What to expect
A Hercule Poirot mystery set on a Nile steamer in the 1930s: a rich young bride, followed on her honeymoon by the friend whose fiancé she married, is found shot. The murder comes only after a long, careful setting-up of passengers and motives, and then Poirot works through alibis in a closed circle of suspects. It is an intricate puzzle with an Egyptian backdrop and the social attitudes of its day.
Good for readers who want: a classic whodunit, a 1930s Nile cruise, and an intricate puzzle.
3 About Agatha Christie
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Agatha Christie
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