Whether this is a reread or your first time in Christie’s delightfully devious mind, I invite you to step aboard the Karnak, where the champagne is cold, the band is hot, and the passengers are glamourous. Luckily, world-famous detective Hercule Poirot is also on board, but with multiple suspects and more bodies piling up, the truth turns out to have more loops and bends than the Nile itself.

When all three find themselves on a cruise down the Nile, things take a deadly turn. The only problem? Simon’s ex, Jacqueline de Bellefort (who is also Linnett’s former best friend. Linnet Doyle is a socialite recently married to Simon. The book opens with that juiciest of plots-a love triangle. (2014) Agatha Christies most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans. A big scarlet Rolls-Royce had just stopped in front of the local post office. The two men stared with round bucolic eyes and slightly open mouths. Burnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns. And that’s a mistake because I promise you, Death On The Nile might have been published in 1937, but the complicated women at its heart-and its shocking ending-make it just as fresh and vital as any 21st century thriller. Agatha Christie - Death On The Nile PART ONE CHAPTER 1 Linnet Ridgeway 'That's Her.' said Mr. But sometimes when an author becomes An Institution, the books themselves can get lost in the myth, or dismissed altogether, relics from the past. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some. Her very name is synonymous with mystery and murder. First edition of this classic novel, basis for the 2020 film directed by Kenneth Branagh. She is the best-selling author of all time, after all. Now, Dame Agatha hardly needs my endorsement. Their fellow passengers bring their own share of mysteries and intrigue on board the Karnak with. And in the middle of it all, a brilliant detective.Ĭountless Golden Age mysteries have this same setup, but Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile is something special. Tensions heighten as Simon and Linnet embark on a Nile cruise. In Death on the Nile, heiress Linnet Ridgeway (Gal Gadot) and her new husband Simon Doyle (Armie Hammer) are on their honeymoon in Egypt and are being stalked by Simon’s ex-fiance Jacqueline (.

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