Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot #17)

Posted on 20 November 2018 by Agatha Christie

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 Best Read Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot #17) author Agatha Christie For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr What a lot of enemies you must make, Linnet Enemies Linnet looked surprised.Joanna nodded and helped herself to a cigarette Enemies, my sweet You re so devastatingly efficient And you re so frightfully good at doing the right thing Linnet laughed Why, I haven t got an enemy in the world Linnet Doyle is on her honeymoon in Egypt with the husband...It is 1937 and Cairo is still considered a jewel of a city to rival Paris The rich and famous flock there to enjoy her night life and cruise the Nile to see the pyramids Such is the backdrop for Dame Agatha Christie s Death on the Nile starring Hercule Poirot As in many of Poirot s cases, this mystery features a young heiress, multiple motives for murder, and criminals traveling under assumed names All these facets add up to a fun, page turning whodunit Upon turning twenty one, Linnet Ridge It is 1937 and Cairo is still considered a jewel of a city to rival Paris The rich and famous flock there to enjoy her night life and cruise the Nile to see the pyramids Such is the backdrop for Dame Agatha Christie s Death on the Nile starring Hercule Poirot As in many of Poirot s cases, this mystery features a young heiress...Book Review4 out of 5 stars for Death on the Nile, a Hercule Poirot mystery published in 1937 by Agatha Christie This is one of Christie s better mysteries, not because of the complexity in the mystery but due to the characters she creates No one is who they appear to be on this ship, and they are all trapped together It s nearly 100 years ago, so how could anyone get on or off the boat without the Captain or the rest of the staff in the know No, I m not giving away a spoiler PoirotBook Review4 out of 5 stars for Death on the Nile, a Hercule Poirot mystery published in 1937 by Agatha Christie This is one of Christie s better mysteries, not because of the complexity in the mystery but due to the characters she creates No one is who they appear to be on this ship...Hopefully I am not committing any heretical thoughtcrime here, but am I the only one who thinks Hercule Poirot comes across as a bit of a doucheapotamus Between the accent, the arrogance and the jabbing his butt into everyone s business, he reminded of a cross between nosey neighbor Gladys Kravitz and everyone s favorite rapist, Pepe Le Pew Now before you get the cheese grater and the lemon ju...A friend told me who the murderer was, so I was not surprized when the killer was discovered.I never talked to this friend againThis is only the second time that I read Death on the Nile I remember the sublime subterfuge of the guilty party, but thought there were only two deaths in the book In fact there are five deaths and the book has a quite hectic pace.Hercule Poirot refers to previous cases once or twice In Murder of the Orient Express he absolved the guilty completely In Death on the Nile, he regrets bringing the murderer to justice, but carries out this task still.The boat on the Nile houses many other charac This is only the second time that I read Death on the Nile I remember the sublime subterfuge o...Choose Your Own Adventure You are a poor sap who loves an English rose, a jewel of society, a gateway to fortune and romance Together you travel the exotic Nile, surrounded by jealousy and greed and yearned for vengeance, each of your fellow passengers a bizarre and unsettling caricature, each one morbidly following your every move Murder strikes not once, not twice, but thrice The situation becomes quite unbearable, and made worse by the attentions of a notorious Belgian muckraker How do Choose Your Own Adventure You are a poor sap who loves an English rose, a jewel of society, a gateway to fortune and romance Together you travel the exotic Nile, surrounded by jealousy and greed and yearned for vengeance, each of your fellow passengers a bizarre and unsettling ...Linnet Ridgeway was an extremely wealthy young woman who had everything she had ever wanted everything everyone else would have liked but she didn t have love So when she married Simon, who had been engaged to one of Linnet s closest friends, there was a good deal of animosity While on their honeymoon, they were on the S.S Karnak, slowly cruising up the Nile River stopping to view the pyramids and other exotic tourist destinations They were accompanied ...Death on the Nile has to be one of my favourite books by Agatha Christie I ve read most of her books and I never get tiered of re reading them There s something specially dark about this book and I happen to like it.As usual the characters are multi dimensional an...This is a really good one from Christie It has all the ingredients of a great story I wish they had done this plot as a film instead of the too many times filmed Murder on the Orient Express.

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20 November 2018

Agatha Christie