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    Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
    Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
    Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
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    Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

    Written by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Kenneth Branagh

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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 Gadot—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.” —The Guardian

    “One of her best. . . . First rate entertainment.” —Kirkus Reviews

    DEATH ON THE NILE®, AGATHA CHRISTIE® AND POIROT® are registered trademarks of Agatha Christie Limited in the UK and elsewhere. All rights reserved.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJun 30, 2020
    ISBN9780063033313
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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    • 4/5
      The usual Agatha Christie keeps you right there until the end
    • 4/5
      Definitely one of Agatha Christie's best. Extremely clever plotting - the clues were all there, but I had no idea 'who dun it' until Poirot - as ever - revealed all. Interesting settings on a Nile cruise, and some better-than-usual characterisation. A little stilted at times, but quite gripping.
    • 4/5
      It's been some twenty years since I last read Agatha Christie, but unlike some authors I've returned to after all that time, she's as good as I remember. I thought I had the whodunnit figured out well in advance in this case, but I was pleased to discover I'd fallen for an artful red herring. Mystery isn't typically my genre, but for Hercule Poirot I'll make exception. Not much setting here (compared to the detailed descriptions of Egypt I recently read in "Memoirs of Cleopatra" for example) so I think she might have made more of the exotic locale, but I love the early twentieth century period of her novels and the coy dialogue. Think I'll check out one of the many movie versions now when I've the chance.
    • 4/5
      Always good!
    • 4/5
      Linnett Ridgeway has almost everything: youth, beauty, brains, and money. Then her best friend Jackie brings her handsome fianc?, Simon Doyle, to visit and asks Linnett to give him a job. Now Linnett and Simon are on their honeymoon, a cruise up the Nile. When Linnett is killed, Jackie is the obvious suspect, but she couldn't have done it. It seems like an insolvable crime, until the famous detective Hercule Poirot starts to investigate. Death on the Nile deserves its reputation as one of Christie's best travel mysteries. This recording is capably read by another familiar name, David Suchet, who is well known among both mystery and public TV buffs as the actor who played the role of Poirot in a series of television adaptations of the author's stories. Expect the trio of Christie, Poirot, and Suchet to be a popular patron selection. St. Mary's Mead was always a quiet English village, at least until the body of Colonel Protheroe was found in the vicarage library. No one liked the murdered man. His first wife had abandoned him, and their teenage daughter kept out of his way. His much younger, second wife had recently fallen in love with a charming portrait painter. The list of possible suspects seems endless. Two different people confess to the murder. Did either do it? Enter Miss Marple, an elderly maiden lady whose gentle manners conceal an extensive knowledge of human depravity and exceptional deductive abilities. She flutters around, asks questions, and solves the crime. But it is the writing, not the plots, that keeps Christie fans coming back. James Saxon gives a clear, competent reading in Murder at the Vicarage, although initially his voice strikes one as brighter and sharper than one would expect from the gentle, scholarly rector.
    • 4/5
      This is one of the most famous Agatha Christie novels, and like them all, it is a very good page turner, but it is not one of my particular favourites. While the Egyptian setting adds interest, the leading characters, especially the female ones, are more than usually irritating. The plot is more convoluted than is normally the case and the final resolution may strike some readers as a bit disappointing. Overall, a decent read, but not up there with And Then There were None or The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
    • 5/5
      One of my comfort reads. It's the reason for my interest in archaeology and Egypt, and one reason I took my Nile tour many years ago.
    • 3/5
      Tidily plotted and an enjoyable read, if one is able to wince-and-move-on from the appallingly colonial characterisation of Egypt and its inhabitants...
    • 4/5
      The scene is carefully set in DEATH ON THE NILE. We first of all meet Linnet Ridgeway, heiress, friend to Jacqueline de Bellefort. The latter has recently fallen in love with the handsome Simon Doyle. It very much looks as if Linnet Ridgeway will marry Lord Windlesham.Hercle Poirot is again dabbling in retirement, a man of leisure, with enough funds to travel. He is contemplating a trip to Egypt to escape a grey English winter.In the next few pages the reader is introduced to the people who will be joining Hercule Poirot on his Nile cruise, and we learn, time having elapsed, that Linnet Ridgeway has recently married. As the blurb warns us, she has a number of enemies, and that makes her death inevitable. The novel is spent working out who the murderer is. Among the candidates is the person who has been stalking Linnet and her husband ever since they married.Hercule Poirot is assisted in this task by Colonel Race who is looking for an arch criminal but has no further information about his identity. Between them they work methodically through the candidates.It is obvious that Christie based the setting of the novel on her own travels in Egypt and on the Nile, although, as a blogger recently commented, the journey is now a bit different to what it was in the 1930s.I found myself wishing that the edition of DEATH ON THE NILE that I read had had a diagram of the layout of the Steamer Karnak on which they were travelling. The layout of the cabins seemed important in working out who had the opportunity to commit the murder. It was clear that Christie had a clear vision of the tour boat herself.As in many other Poirot novels, the Belgian's fondness for romance comes to the surface, and he does his best to foster romantic feelings of some of the young people in the novel, even to the point of tweaking the outcome of one of the minor crimes, something of which Colonel Race found it hard to approve.Colonel Race plays the role of Poirot's sounding board and confidante. This is the role often played by Captain Hastings, or by one of the women with whom Poirot strikes up a friendship. But even then Poirot finds it difficult to explain to Race where his little grey cells are leading him, and his final explanations come as a surprise to Race.
    • 4/5
      Hercule Poirot is taking a little vacation, an excursion to Egypt that involves a cruise up the Nile River. Unfortunately, his trip will not be the restful escape he had imagined. He finds himself traveling with famous heiress and beauty Linnet Doyle, or Linnet Ridgeway as she was known before her recent marriage to Simon Doyle. They are less than pleased to discover Jacqueline de Bellefort has also joined them. Jacqueline was Simon's former fiancee before Simon broke off their engagement so he could marry Linnet, who had been Jackie's best friend at the time. Both Linnet and Simon entreat Poirot for his help in the matter, revealing that ever since the marriage, Jackie had miraculously turned up everywhere they traveled, creating an atmosphere of suspense and tension that was quite ruining their honeymoon. Poirot gracefully declines. He feels sympathy for the jilted woman, who he had coincidentally observed in a happier time when she was still engaged, and had witnessed how deeply in love she was. Therefore, he tells them that he can't work on their behalf. However, he does let them know that he'll look into the matter, because he fears the situation is dangerous for all involved. Poirot's suspicions are correct. A few days after the river cruise commences, Linnet is found dead in her cabin, a small bullet hole burned neatly into her temple.The signs point to Jacqueline. Yet due to the series of events directly preceding the murder, Poirot is able to quickly rule out both Jacqueline and Simon as suspects. Other possibilities abound. The genteel Allertons are onboard, and while Miss Allerton seems above reproach, her son Tim is clearly hiding something. Mr. Pennington, Linnet's financial advisor from the United States, met them in Cairo in a coincidence that seems fishy, and had been trying to push paperwork on Linnet. Two other young men, Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Fanthorp, are clearly hiding their own secrets. And Miss Rosalie, the sullen young lady who's traveling with her novelist mother, is being less than truthful. To top it all off, Poirot's old friend Colonel Race has joined the cruise, and confidentially revealed to the detective that he's searching for a dangerous revolutionary that is hidden among the guests.With such a colorful cast of characters, Poirot has plenty of mysteries to solve beyond the main one of Linnet's death. As he clears away the false trails and red herrings that abound, he continually notes to Colonel Race that something just feels off about the evidence in Linnet's case. Yet Poirot will persevere, with his keen wit and deep understanding of human nature, and eventually reveals the complicated truth in this deadly affair of the heart.This is one of Christie's better known novels, and understandably so. The setting is thrilling and foreign (for her British audience), the characters are compelling, with their own interesting backstories for major and minor characters alike. It's great fun reading Poirot unravel the many subplots that complicate the matter and must be cleared away before the murder can be solved. Also, the majority of the plot occurs on a cruise ship, instead of Christie's typical closed setting of country manor, which is a nice change of pace. The solution to this mystery is quite complex, with an elaborate solution full of revelations that are supported by clues in the story and yet put together in such a way that will still take most readers by surprise.
    • 4/5
      Probably because it is one of the Christie novels made into a film (with an amazing cast including Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Maggie Smith) this is one of her most popular. I don't think it's one of her best though. I'd name And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Five Little Pigs, The ABC Murders, and my personal favorite is Death Comes as the End for the romance and setting in Ancient Egypt.Mind you, the famous Christie way with a twist is there in Death on the Nile--with the usual clever red herring and brilliant solution by Poirot. There are colorfully drawn characters and, as with all Christie's books, it's a fun read, even if slower-paced than most at the start since events build up to the murder, rather than beginning with a murder, and there's less local color than you might expect from its setting in a cruise on the Nile. I think part of the problem for me is the setup is too similar to Murder on the Orient Express--with a bunch of suspects traveling together but without the logical reason for them being all together that Murder on the Orient Express manages. The murders--how they were done--also seem more far-fetched. Nevertheless this is ranked four stars because it's handicapped by comparing it to Christie's best. If I were comparing it to the usual book on the mystery shelves in stores, it would win top marks.
    • 3/5
      I enjoy this plot very much but was not super into the whole "doing voices in Egyptian accents" thing and of course anything the characters or Dame Agatha is saying about Egypt at the time is not.... good. I have no idea if Christie was being ironic re: imperialism or just entirely un-self-aware when she had a British character say the following: “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.”Once everyone is back on the boat for the mystery and we're done talking about Egypt, things improve dramatically. Thank goodness.
    • 5/5
      Loved it, Christie writes the best Murder Mysteries.
    • 4/5
      Linet is a rich American heiress who has moved to a country village in England. She has purchased a manor form an older gentleman who has fallen on hard times and has restored it.Linet is being pursued by an impoverished young man who hopes to access Linet's vast fortune in order to restore his family home & his fortune as well. However, Linet soon realizes that to marry him, would mean giving up her new home and living in his..... She promptly breaks off with him and he moves to Canada.Linet has a friend, Jacqueline who is ever down on her luck, but refuses to take handouts from Linet. Soon however, Jacqueline is to marry Simon and the one favor Jacqueline asks of Linet is to employ Simon as her estate Caretaker/Overseer.Linet, no matter how generous to her friends, has never once denied herself anything, and promptly marries Simon.Linet & Simon go to Egypt for their Honeymoon, where Monsieur Poirot is vacationing... all is well until Jacqueline shows up and begins harassing the newly weds.One night after a game of bridge, Linet retires early, as does M. Poirot. Jacqueline causes a scene and in front of two witnesses shots Simon in the leg..... Both are taken to their respective cabins and remain there under close supervision.The next morning Linet is found in dead her cabin, shot through the head.... Many people had motive, but the one w/ the most motive has an alibi and witnesses.....Later Linet's maid is murdered as is the old woman who knows who killed the maid.The end had a nice but unusual twist.I like this book, the plot was very ingenious, but if one pays close attention the clues are there.
    • 5/5
      Hercule Poirot investigates a triple murder that takes place on a ship taking a tourist trip up the Nile. The murder of an heiress, one of the richest women in Europe, is only the top of the iceberg of intrigue and secrets that obscure the truth and lead to more deaths. I think that Agatha Christie was at her best when it came to writing novels. Short stories didn't give her as much room to develop the plot and characters in that special subtle way of hers. I particularly liked this story because on the surface it is a mystery but underneath it all it is really a study in human character, the different types and manifestations of love and the role it plays in the lives of people.
    • 2/5
      Klassiek Poirotverhaal, met nogal doorzichtige plot en Poirot als God de Vader.
    • 5/5
      Very much to like in the character details and the elaborate deduction is classic Agatha Christie. I liked Race as an investigative counterpoint to Poirot. The ending, while predictable, still satisfies. The only thing keeping this from being a 5-star book is that there is no real sense of place. The only necessities the Nile provides is a boat and water, otherwise it may well have been a boat on the Amazon on which the chess pieces were set and the revolving door of interrogation swung.
    • 4/5
      One of Christies best, along with Orient Express and Ten Little Pigs. Set on a riverboat on the Nile, Egypt, Hercule Poirot is on holiday, when he meets socialite Linnet Ridgeway and her new husband Simon. When Linnet is murdered, her friend Jackie who was originally engaged to Simon before Linnet stole him, is the obvious suspect. When she is given an unshakeable alibi, it is up to Poirot to solve the mystery. I was given a lot of the original agatha paperbacks by my aunt when I was in primary school and fell in love with the old school imagery of england. I credit Christie, Enid Blyton and my Aunty Lilla for my love of reading.
    • 3/5
      Atmospheric cruise mystery. Guessed early on 'who done it', but enjoyed the red herrings, and the reason for why the murder weapon was thrown away.
    • 5/5
      This was my first Agatha Christie novel, and I absolutely adored it. Featuring an intricate cast of characters (all with possible motives) and a fast-paced plot, I could hardly put this book down. I'll admit, I found Poirot to be a touch pompous. His deductive leaps in solving the case were huge (particularly as most of the evidence could have pointed to any of the characters). However, there were just enough hints to make the chosen perpetrator believable. For a book with such a large cast of characters, they were all very well developed. I found myself continuously amused by Cornelia's suitors and Rosalie and Tom's love/hate relationship. I highly recommend this novel for anybody looking for a fun, fast mystery with good character development and numerous subplots.
    • 4/5
      What can you say about Agatha Christie? It's a winner, of course. There's a nice twist at the end of this, and Poirot says something rather interesting -- "love stories always end in tragedy". And I love the BBC audio productions.
    • 4/5
      Interesting new way of reading mysteries: If you accidentally spoil yourself on a mystery's culprit (like via the excellent Connie Willis short story "Death on the Nile" that references this book), try reading the book and see if you can clearly tell *why* they're the culprit.This is an excellent Agatha Christie mystery. It's really three mysteries in one, plus two romances...Poirot leads a busy life, even on vacation! If there's any flaw it's that there are a bit too many characters. I feel like solveable mysteries should stick to 6-8 possible culprits.
    • 5/5
      The Best Damn Agatha Christie Novel PeriodWith what I'm about to say, I feel like I'm walking out onto an empty stage, stepping up to a microphone, and facing a thousand pairs of dubious eyes. The lights are hot, there's sweat on my forehead, and I can hear a somewhat hostile murmur rippling through the crowd. I tap the mic a couple of times—"Is this on?"—cough nervously, then announce in the boldest voice I can summon…"Ladies and gentlemen, Death on the Nile is the best novel Agatha Christie ever wrote."Then I step back, arms held defensively in front of my body as I wait for the pummeling storm of rotten tomatoes.This is not just some stunt to get you to listen to me. I sincerely believe Agatha's 1937 novel stands head and shoulders above the rest of her canon. Yes, it's better than Murder on the Orient Express, superior to And Then There Were None and greater than The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. However, I don't blame any of you for maintaining your equally passionate opinion that one of those (or any of her other 80 novels) is the best mystery. The Church of Agatha Christie is large enough for readers of many beliefs to live in harmony.Like a delta on the titular river, Death on the Nile is where all the tributaries of what we love about Agatha Christie come together. In these 350 pages, plot, character, pacing, and literary style converge into one energetically satisfying murder mystery. You want an "impossible" murder? You got it. You want an international cast of suspects who all seem to have reliable alibis? You got that, too. You want an exotic locale? Coming right up. You want a romantic subplot that raises a lump of happiness in your throat when deserving couples finally pair up at the climax? Yep, that's here, too.By the time Death on the Nile was released, Agatha had been publishing books for seventeen years and she had perfected her formula to as fine a point as the waxed tip of Hercule Poirot's mustache. She had delivered into our hands ingenious crimes carried out in the trickiest manner possible and set in challenging locales—aboard a train (Murder on the Orient Express), in a snowstorm (Murder at Hazelmoor), during a bridge game (Cards on the Table), on an airplane (Death in the Air) and at a remote archeological dig (Murder in Mesopotamia).As good as those novels were, however, they were just prelude for the symphonic masterpiece. Agatha took the best of everything which had worked so well in all of her previous novels and crafted a murder scheme so fantastic and absolutely perfect that the solution of the murder, when it's finally revealed by Poirot to the other stunned passengers of the Karnak, still takes my breath away—even after reading the book twice and seeing the 1978 movie at least four times.I realize I have to hold my passion for this book in check, lest I let slip a spoiler for those who haven't read Death on the Nile. Let me just say this, then I'll move on: the complicated murder scheme is a psychological triumph on Agatha's part; here, more than any other novel, she delves far beneath the skin of her characters to give us a story where crime and motive fit like puzzle pieces.The plot of Death on the Nile, when stripped down to the bone, goes like this:1. Linnet Ridgeway and Jacqueline de Bellefort are good friends.2. Linnet is rich and beautiful; Jackie is solidly middle-class and less dazzling.3. Jackie has just been engaged to Simon Doyle and she brings him to meet Linnet.4. It's love at first sight for Linnet and Simon.5. They marry.6. The jilted lover, Jackie, vows to make their life miserable.7. Jackie stalks Simon and Linnet on their honeymoon cruise in Egypt.8. In a fit of passion one night, Jackie fires a pistol at Simon, and he clutches his leg in agony.9. That same night, as everyone is busy tending to Simon and Jackie, Linnet is murdered.10. While nearly everyone had a motive to kill Linnet, according to the timeline and testimony of witnesses, no one appears to have had the opportunity to kill her.These are the cold facts of the case confronting Poirot who, quite conveniently, has also booked passage on the Karnak. As always, he listens and watches and slowly gathers his clues—a velvet stole, a bottle of fingernail polish, the scorch marks around a bullet wound, a splash in the middle of the night.By all appearances, Jacqueline de Bellefort was the most likely suspect. After all, she was the one who went around saying things like, "I want to hurt her—to stick a knife into her, to put my dear little pistol close against her head and then—just press with my finger." But yet, it also appears she couldn't have carried out her lover's revenge because she was under the watchful eye of reliable witnesses from the time she fired the pistol at Simon to the moment when Linnet's body was found.If not Jackie, then who? Who spilled blood on the Nile? As Poirot tells us in the closing pages, "This was no spontaneous crime committed on the spur of the moment. It was, on the contrary, very carefully planned and accurately timed, with all the details meticulously worked out beforehand."The same might be said of Agatha's construction of this novel. By the time we turn the last page, we realize that we have just witnessed something which is as intricate as the gears on a Swiss watch, as beautifully played as a Beethoven symphony. Bravo, Agatha, bravo!
    • 5/5
      My favorite My favorite My favorite! such insight to the characters and their motives and ah! so much fun to read!
    • 4/5
      Listened to this on a road trip for Andy's book club. Lots of twists and turns in the second half. Poirot is quite the character.
    • 4/5
      Re-reading this after nine years, I find that it holds up better than I thought. Christie’s ingenuity with plots is fully engaged here, with twists and turns galore.The secondary characters/suspects get some good development in this one, and the exotic setting of a cruise on the Nile is well done too.This tale of love, possessiveness, greed, and revenge is one of Christie’s best and most-loved works. The movie adaptation with Peter Ustinov is great, but the David Suchet outing, while he is a wonderful Poirot, annoyingly fiddles with a plot line only because of an imagined need for “inclusion.”
    • 4/5
      A slow beginning with this one, but it built momentum. Poirot is flawless is his skills as an investigator, even while on vacation. The set up is similar to Orient Express, but with a higher body count. The complicated cast of characters makes sense by the end. “Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.”“To succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.”
    • 4/5
      A lovely mystery with all the suspects isolated on a ship "barging down the Nile." Interesting look at British society of a certain time and circumstance. Christie knows her characters, and draws them with a fine pen, and occasionally a fine needle. A young heiress is murdered on her honeymoon after making enemies of nearly everyone she meets.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite Christies -- and I've read them all many times. Besides the plot and Poirot, the exotic setting and ambiance add to the enjoyment.
    • 5/5
      This is one of the classics of crime fiction. The characters are drawn perfectly and they are often nasty to each other. The scene is set so that outside interference is minimal. The red herrings abound so that suspicion is cast in all directions. The planning and execution of the original murder are almost perfect. But as Poirot says himself they hadn’t counted on his ability to see through it all. There is a reason why Agatha Christie is so popular and this book has to be part of it. I gave it 5 stars out of 5.