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Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
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Death on the Nile (edition 1978)

by Agatha Christie (Author)

Series: Colonel Race (3), Hercule Poirot (15)

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Soon to be a major motion picture sequel to Murder on the Orient Express with a screenplay by Michael Green, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh alongside Gal Gadotâ??coming February 11, 2022!

Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie's most famous mysteries.

The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, 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 under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what it seems.

A sweeping mystery of love, jealousy, and betrayal, Death on the Nile is one of Christie's most legendary and timeless works.

"Death on the Nile is perfect." â??The Guardian

"One of her best. . . . First rate entertainment." â??Kirkus Reviews… (more)

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Title:Death on the Nile
Authors:Agatha Christie (Author)
Info:Bantam (1978), Edition: New Bantam ed., 214 pages
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Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

  1. 80
    Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie (Porua)
    Porua: Hercule Poirot and holidays never get on well together. Wherever Poirot goes death seems to stalk him. If anyone enjoys Death on the Nile s/he should also enjoy Evil under the Sun. Both books feature not only Poirot in a holiday mood but also women who are fatally attractive and men who desperately fall for them. But then things are not always what they seem.… (more)
  2. 10
    Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (MissBrangwen)
  3. 00
    Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon (Smiler69)
    Smiler69: Donna Leon must have read many Agatha Christie novels in her day. Her series of murder mysteries are all set in Venice, Italy.
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This was my fourth, and favorite so far, Agatha Christie novel since I decided to challenge myself to read all of her novels over the next few years. It was the third in the Hercule Poirot series. A page turner from the beginning, this whodunnit was full of surprising twists and turns right up until the end. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
Exciting and fast-paced with such a cast of characters! Rec0mmended reading for adventure and mystery readers. ( )
  JoniMFisher | Oct 26, 2023 |
What can I say about this book?
I love the way Agatha Christie weaves her mysteries. It kept me guessing and it was fun the whole way.
It takes a few chapters to really get going, but once it does, you’d get whiplash easily from all the finger pointing!
The only thing I didn’t like was when one of the characters wrote down what we’d been over, I felt like that was either dumbing it down or purposely misleading and I just wanted to go for the ride. ( )
  Danielle.Desrochers | Oct 10, 2023 |
“But there she was quite wrong - for a matter of death was exactly what it was.” Dun, dun, duh!


”a person A who has grievously wronged a person B. The person B desires the revenge. The person B makes the threats.”

3 deaths, 3 murders. All aboard a boat cruising down the Nile. Thank goodness that Hercule Poirot is on board too! As he often seems to be...

A good who-done-it in the traditional Agatha Christie style! Lots of misdirection, lots of suspects! And the scene at the end gets pretty crazy, as love often does! ( )
  Stahl-Ricco | Oct 9, 2023 |
One of my favourite childhood reads ( )
  ellie.sara18 | Oct 6, 2023 |
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Linnet Rideway es una joven agraciada y millonaria que lo posee todo. Su amiga, Jacqueline de Bellefort, no menos hermosa aunque pobre, sĂłlo tiene amor de su prometido Simon Doyle. Sin embargo, Simon acaba casĂĄndose con Linnet. El nuevo matrimonio inicia un crucero por el Nilo a bordo de Karnak y durante el viaje, que habrĂ­a de haber sido el mejor viaje de su vida, Linnet muere asesinada. Tras su asesinato se suceden otros que serĂĄn investigados por Hercule Poirot, que viaja en el mismo crucero.
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SYBIL BURNETT
who also loves wandering around the world
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If there were only any peace in Egypt I should like it better," said Mrs. Allerton. "But you can never be alone anywhere. Someone is always pestering you for money, or offering you donkeys, or beads, or expeditions to native villages, or duck shooting.
It’s so dreadfully easy...killing people
 And you begin to feel that it doesn’t matter
That it’s only you that matters! It’s dangerous...that.
How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.
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Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:

Soon to be a major motion picture sequel to Murder on the Orient Express with a screenplay by Michael Green, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh alongside Gal Gadotâ??coming February 11, 2022!

Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie's most famous mysteries.

The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, 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 under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what it seems.

A sweeping mystery of love, jealousy, and betrayal, Death on the Nile is one of Christie's most legendary and timeless works.

"Death on the Nile is perfect." â??The Guardian

"One of her best. . . . First rate entertainment." â??Kirkus Reviews

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