Death on the Nile (Poirot)

Agatha Christie

Oct 2010 · HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

Agatha Christie’s most exotic murder mystery, with a striking new cover to tie in with the highly anticipated 2022 film adaptation.

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life.

Hercule Poirot recalls 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 is ever quite what it seems...

Ratings and reviews

Oh, man! I just love this book! This one beats the Murder on the Orient Express. The book's about the murder of a rich, young lady named Linnet Doyle who dies in the middle of the night by a bullet fired through her head. There's an air of tension and suspicion throughout the book. In the beginning, we find many of the characters ruled out and innocent but in the latter part, some of them have petty secrets of their own. The plot progress is brilliant and gripping and the magical part in the last three-four chapters will leave you awestruck. A masterpiece book.

Agatha Christie never fails to produce enjoyable and solvable mystery's but even she has outdone herself this time with many clues and red herrings the experienced reader themselves may struggle to produce any idea of the murder let alone the correct solution up there with and then there were none and the murder of roger ackroid

A beautiful heiress, an opportunistic murder on a boat trip down the Nile, with the usual interesting cast of suspects. Enjoyable.

About the author

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.