Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot #17)

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Poirot, on vacation in Africa, meets the rich, beautiful Linnet Doyle and her new husband, Simon. As usual, all is not as it seems between the newlyweds, and when Linnet is found murdered, Poirot must sort through a boatload of suspects to find the killer before he (or she) strikes again.
Paperback, 214 pages
Published 1978 by Bantam Books (first published 1937)
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Stephen
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.
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Now before you get the cheese grater and the lemon juice out for me, let me say that this is my first Agatha Christie novel and my first experience with...more
Suvi
I should have known I like Christie because her stories are just simply wonderful old-fashioned crime puzzles that make you turn the pages and sigh when everything's finished. There's not much action or focusing to the crime solver's personal life which is fantastic and in a lot of ways works better than the plots of formulaic contemporary crime novels. Also, the time in which the murders are set is part of the appeal to me. For a long time I've adored the tv movies because you could actually se...more
3houd

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 and quite weird and scandalous lol. EVERYONE has a motive and an opportunity, anyone could've done it but I can never guess the right person with Agatha :)

Very enjoyable and highly recommended.
Clarice
It is obviously quite difficult to review a book that has been commented upon so many times, and it is therefore challenging to come up with anything new that hasn't already been said or written by others before. Nevertheless, here is my opinion on "Death on the Nile": If you like murder mysteries and the quintessentially English "whodunnit", then this should certainly be a candidate on your "must-read" list. Christie's story is unputdownable and a perfectly crafted example of the genre. The aut...more
Paleomichi
Mi piacciono molto i gialli, ma solo alcuni autori. Da adolesente avevo la fissa per Sherlock Holmes, ora continua a piacermi ma leggo anche Rex Stout e Ellery Queen.

Tendo a leggere gialli in momenti di stanchezza o stress, non azzecco mai l'assassino, ma ogni tanto noto qualche indizio interessante.

Agatha Christie non l'avevo mai letta fino a un paio di mesi fa. Anni fa iniziai un suo libro, dopo una prima parte in cui presentava un personaggio, ne mostrava molte sfaccettature, lo rendeva simpa...more
Carrie
This is is a classic Christie, along the lines of her best puzzle mysteries with a tricky plot (as opposed to the ones with the great characterization, like The Hollow). Although the characters aren’t too bad either, particularly the central triangle of the beautiful millionaire, Linnet Ridgeway, her best friend Jacqueline de Bellefort, and Jackie’s fiance, Simon Doyle, who Linnet steals for herself. Jackie cannot bear to lose Simon, and rather than bow out gracefully, begins to follow Simon and...more
Mónica Silva
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Mais uma obra que me deixou rendida à escrita de Agatha Christie: fluída e maravilhosamente simples, ao mesmo tempo repleta de subtis indícios que constroem todo o mistério. Ambientada no exóticos cenários do Egito – um país pelo qual nutro um eterno fascínio –, esta estória deixou-me completamente envolvida. Ao virar de cada página dava por mim a analisar personagens, a colher pistas e a procurar motivos, tudo para tentar deslindar quem de...more
Christine
Life has been good to Linnette Ridgeway. She is young, beautiful, rich and has great business sense. Used to getting her own way and taking whatever she wants in life, she has no qualms stealing her best friend's fiance and marrying him herself. Unfortunately, Jackie (Linnette's former friend), cannot forgive Linnette and Simon for their betrayal. She stalks them in public, follows them on their honeymoon, and is determined to ruin their good time. When Linnette is shot in the head, fellow boat...more
Helen
This mystery pairs very nicely with Murder on the Orient Express because you have a group of people within a restricted environment, some with very definite antipathies and then a murder which matches those antipathies, but... the obvious people have absolute alibis so it must be someone else. Col. Race whom we met elsewhere doing secret government/military observations turns up on the river steamer looking for ...a murderer, but not our murderer. Who would want to murder such a beautiful young...more
Andy
Despite being one of the 'big' Poirot books, I've only just got round to reading it and have never seen any of the tv/film versions. So I came in fresh and loved it. True, while I pretty much love anything involving Poirot, some of the tales are more satisfying than others. This clearly satisfies.

We get a big book, rich in detail, with a large well fleshed-out cast and some real time spent with them before the first death occurs (in fact, not having read the back cover I wasn't entirely sure wh...more
Maxime
Being an avid Christie reader and a mystery stories lover I know that many people consider Death on the Nile one of the "big three" Christie novels - those are: Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and of course this one. With my personal favorite and bestseller "And Then They Were None" acting as the bastard child.

Before arguing whether this allegation is acceptable or not I will state that an average mystery reader or someone that has read just one or two novels by this au...more
Anastasia Fitzgerald-Beaumont
I suppose it’s not a terribly good idea to read a crime thriller when one already knows the outcome. Half the fun, after all, is in the surprise, or in discovering that one is as sensitive to the clues as the sleuth! I came to Death on the Nile for the first time in no need of clues because I already knew whodunit from watching an old movie with Peter Ustinov in the role of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s ace French, sorry, Belgian detective.

I’m not a huge fan of traditional crime fiction. The...more
Edithcastro
This is the first Agatha Christie book and it certainly won't be my last. The story was just fantastic. It's hard for me to write a review for this book without giving too many things away but I'll just say that the ending was quite suprising. I did not expect that at all, but somehow when Poirot explained it, it all seemed like the simplest thing in the world and I experienced that wonderful feeling of getting something.
The dialogue always flowed well and the pace of the book was always right....more
Norman
After finished reading this novel, I am reminded of an old fable of a man buying land as far as he can walk. When the sun sets he cannot get back to where he started in the morning. He finally dies of thirst and regret.

I have been meaning to read this, as it is listed next to 'And Then There Were None' and 'Murder on the Orient Express'. I must say it starts rather differently from her previous novels, and it is quite refreshing to see Poirot out of stuffy London.

What do you do when you have eve...more
02RebeccaH
The book starts off with the introduction to Linnet Ridgeway, rich, young, and beautiful. A duke has asked her to marry him, but she doesn't want to go through with it. Her best friend, Jacqueline Bellefort is about to marry a guy, Simon Doyle, who is strong and simple. Jackie proudly presents him to Linnet, and Simon, supposedly astounded by her beauty and charm, leaves Jackie to marry Linnet. On their honeymoon they go on a long cruise on the Nile, on a boat with many suspects and motives suc...more
Sparrow
It's morally wrong to discuss the plot of any Agatha Christie book, so I will only analyze the first page. And the cover, which supports my theory that the illustrations on all Agatha Christie books are ugly. One is tempted to believe that Agatha herself supervised these monotonous drawings, so they wouldn't rival her writing.

This book was published in 1956 -- that's another subject I can discuss -- and was dedicated to Sybil Burnett, who sounds like a friend of Agatha's. At some point, Christie...more
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Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Audio book performed by David Suchet
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Christie is at her best in this mystery starring Hercule Poirot.

Linnett Ridgeway has everything – beauty, youth, intelligence and incredible wealth. When her dear friend Jacqueline de Bellefort asks her to please give her fiancé, Simon Doyle, a job so that they can get a start in life together, Linnett agrees. But a few months later it is Linnett and Simon who are on their honeymoon, though Jackie seems to turn up eve...more
Mayday Maddie
Hercule Poirot strikes again with yet another page turner, mustache and string of ingenious Belgian/French phrases.

I am very proud of myself for successfully solving the case -- or rather figuring it out from Poirot's vague & mysterious observations and conversations. But still. It's fun to win. :)

I never really noticed how many political statements Agatha Christie includes... this text has a lot of attacks on society, particularly tourism, capitalism and despotism. It's no accident either;...more
Megan
This is the second Agatha Christie book I have read, the first being 'Murder on the Orient Express'. So that's all I have to compare this book to, so just be warned. Before I read 'Murder on the Orient Express' I already knew who the murderer was (thanks big brother who spoiled it for me when I was in elementary school). But for 'Death on the Nile' I had no clue on the 'who-done-it'. I was thoroughly disappointed in that half-way through the book I guessed correctly on who was the murderer (but...more
Laurel
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Erik
My only foray into the world of Christie until just a few weeks ago was my having read Murder on the Orient Express a decade and a half ago upon my grandmother’s recommendation. (In another life, she would have been the perfect Miss Marple. This I swear.) But it wasn’t until the hilarious drawing-room murder spoof “The Unicorn and the Wasp” from the second season of the new Doctor Who – with Christie herself showing up in a clever plot developed around the real-life mystery of an 11-day black-ou...more
Margaryta
Oh. My. GOSH. I love Poirot - it is the greatest detective series there was probably ever written, of course right next to Sherlock Holmes.

I mostly watch the english series, and I have watched almost every single episode so I had begun to read the books slowly on some of the selected episodes. This was the first Hercule Poirot episode I had seen so I decided to pick up the book.

The ending had truly suprised me - I had not expected such a turn of events but it truly was worth reading. The book gi...more
Kathrin Stacked'n'Painted
I've been a fan of Agatha Christie's mysteries for as long as I know about her mysteries, so I had to get this graphic novel when I saw it in the used book shop! And as soon as I was on the train that day, I started reading it. There was just nothing that could keep me from it - not even my then current book!

In Death on the Nile, Hercule Poirot is in Egypt for a vacation. While he is on a cruise on the Nile, a murder occurs and it is, of course, up to the master investigator to figure out who di...more
maricar
Feels like the Orient Express all over again. But instead of being a shallow copy of the plot – a horrible thing for an author to do, yes? — Death on the Nile is more than able to stand up on its own in terms of its share of thrills, its healthy dose of the whodunit among a motley crew of characters, and even its sprinkling of romance.

It’s Poirot again at his finest.

No, really.

(And, may I say, so far as I have been able to tread among the Poirot Mysteries, the one at his most introspective and...more
Christine
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie is a mystery of one of the richest women in England who is found dead one morning in her cabin on her honeymoon cruise in Egypt. More specifically, the Nile River. Christie engages many characters who may seem to have the motive and brains, but leaves the murderer/s in the shadows of suspicion. Hiding under a plan which could only be weaved together by a mastermind, the criminal/s are loose in the minds of Colonel Race, but not by the sharp detective, the gr...more
El
I don't know what it is about Agatha Christie that always leaves me feeling so "bleh", but there it is.

Linnet Doyle and her husband, Simon, honeymoon on the Nile. Simon used to be engaged to Linnet's best friend, Jacqueline, and being the best friend and all she comes along for the trip along with several other people, including the fantastic Hercule Poirot. Jacqueline plays quite the spurned lover, making the Doyles unhappy, and it becomes more suspicious when Simon gets shot and Linnet gets de...more
Andrea Bowhill
Death on the Nile is placed as one of my top five favorite Agatha Christie novels and its one of the worlds much loved. First read in my teens and read countless times since, this review was brought on from a recent question to myself,"Has any book ever inspired you to travel?" This book was it: Egypt for the history and to see the sights with my own eyes. Death on the Nile this wonderful little facsimile first edition hardback a perfect way to experience Agatha Christie with the original typese...more
Elizabeth
dude. i almost totally figured it out. i am a GENIUS. either that or all that Monk and Psyche and Law and Order watching has finally paid off. i'm surprised the FBI or the CIA or NSA or some other watchdog police force hasn't hunted me down yet for all my uber circa 1930s detective skills. once they do i'll make BANK. yay me.

oh. and i say "almost" because yeah i knew who wanted the necklace but had the motive all wrong because of that ole detective story cliche "oh, well, here is a tid bit of in...more
Peter
Wow, a real tour-de-force for Agatha. The writing is definately a cut above many of her novels, and the story is rich in psychological aspects, tight plotting, vivid characterization, and an evocative setting.

Golden girl Linnet Doyle seems to have everything: looks, money, personality, business sense, and, as it turns out...enemies. After stealing her passionate school chum Jacqueline de Bellefort's handsome fiance, Simon, she heads out to Egypt for an exotic honeymoon. But Jackie is not a woman...more
ABI
3 y media estrella.

El comienzo fue bastante lento, y yo, siendo una persona que detesta los chismes, el escuchar los temas de conversación de ciertos personajes era un tanto aburrido, por no decir irritante. Pero pasando todo aquello, fue satisfactorio el final (?). Al menos varias cosas que se dijeron dentro de esos chimes -algunas que noté y otras que no- fueron de relevancia. Además no es bueno juzgar a un libro por la estupidez de unos personajes, ya que aquella "estupidez" viene al caso (al...more
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Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880...more
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