I am reading through the novels of Agatha Christie in the order in which they were written and writing a review on each one.
Death on The Nile
1937
Description
Agatha Christie’s most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
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…
My Thoughts
This is the 29th book by Agatha Christie and the 16th Poirot Mystery
It is one of the best known Christie books and possibly because of that and the number of adaptations that have been produced it is not among my top Christie stories.
As with most of her books it is very cleverly written but at one stage I do feel that I can not quite get round the intricate plot because I feel that just one strategic action is not properly explained even having read it a couple of times and having seen all the adaptations, so I do know the full details of it.
She loves villains and heroines and so do I and here you definitely have a special villain and heroine. I do love the way we are allowed to see the concern and the disdain for them both emanating from Poirot.
We also see several other storylines running through the book some of which have no bearing on the solution of the murder and some which do, not exactly red herrings though.
It has to be noted that this is one of her books that even if it was not one of the most wellknown it still would be one that once read the victim and murderer will not be forgotten.
There is one thing missing in this one - no Captain Hastings!
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Books by Agatha Christie
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