Synopsis
A rich heiress is honymooning in Egypt and they take a boat trip down the Nile. But the boat would be filled with people who had agendas concerning her and the trip would be her last.
History
First publication: Collins Crime Club, November 1, 1937
Review
Amazing book! Admittedly I wanted to read this before I see the new movie by Kenneth Brannaugh. But this is whodunnit at its best. Not that the culprit was all that difficult to figure out, but just really enjoyable for the characters and the twists and the ingenious way the murder was done and all of the little detail Christie thought through! This was my third Christie novel and I enjoyed it a lot, but my favorite is still And Then There Were None. Still, I loved the characters. Everyone had issues and everyone had motives, except Linnet of course. Her character was just like a work of art—expensive, beautiful and way above everyone. Unfortunately that made her probably the weakest character, no more interesting than the pearl necklace she wore. But then she was only there to be somebody to kill, so she didn’t need to be more. My favorite character, besides Poirot, who is starting to grow on me, was Jacqueline de Bellefort. She was just really interesting and seemed the Most real of all the characters—not that the others were at all wooden. Christie did an excellent job with all of the characters. My first encounter with Poirot was in Hallowe’en Party last October. I didn’t really warm up to him then, but this time I liked him more. I’m not exactly sure why. Possibly because, Hallowe’en Party being a late sixties novel Christie may not have felt the need to put a lot into him. She had already written a lot of books with him and her readers would have known him well. The story moved along nicely with the writing being easy and a pleasure to read and the action of the story being very captivating. I don’t feel like there was any part of the story that slowed or bogged down. I normally also like some sort of point to be made in a book. I don’t feel this has that but I didn’t miss it. It is only an entertainment but about the best entertainment you can get. Highly recommended! Top Tale!
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We have the story in these editions:
Death On the Nile, leatherbound, Bantam Books, 1983-05-00
All of the stories in the Hercule Poirot series:
The Cornish Mystery
The Crag in the Dolomites
The Double Clue
Double Sin
The Dying Chinaman
The Terrible Catastrophe
The Unexpected Guest
In the House of the Enemy
The Incident of the Dog’s Ball
The Veiled Lady
The Yellow Jasmine Mystery”
The Capture of Cerberus
The Flock of Geryon
The Girdle of Hyppolita
The Nemean Lion
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
The Apples of the Hesperides
The Arcadian Deer
The Augean Stables
Christmas Adventure
The Cretan Bull
The Dream
The Erymanthian Boar
The Horses of Diomedes
The Lernean Hydra
Poirot and the Regatta Mystery
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Problem at Sea
The Second Gong
The Murder on the Links
The Stymphalean Birds
The Third Floor Flat
Triangle at Rhodes
The Under Dog
The Murder of Roger Akroyd
Wasps’ Nest
The Big Four
Yellow Iris
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Peril at End House
Lord Edgware Dies
Murder on the Orient Express
Three Act Tragedy
Death in the Clouds
The A.B.C. Murders
Murder in Mesopotamia
Cards on the Table
Dumb Witness
Appointment with Death
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
Sad Cypress
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
The Adventure of ‘The Western Star’
The Tragedy of Marsden Manor
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
The Mystery of the Hunter’s Lodge
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
The Kidnapped Prime Minister
The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
The Case of the Missing Will
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
The Adventure of the Dartmoor Bungalow
The King of Clubs
The Lady on the Stairs
The Lemesurier Inheritance
The Lost Mine
The Adventure of the Peroxide Blonde
The Affair at the Victory Ball
The Baited Trap
The Market Basing Mystery
The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest
The Plymouth Express
The Radium Thieves
The Chess Problem
The Chocolate Box
17 Death on the Nile
24 Evil Under the Sun
25 Five Little Pigs
26 The Hollow
29 Taken at the Flood
32 Mrs McGinty’s Dead
33 After the Funeral
34 Hickory Dickory Dock
35 Dead Man’s Folly
36 Cat Among the Pigeons
39 The Clocks
40 Third Girl
41 Hallowe’en Party
42 Elephants Can Remember
43 Curtain
