Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)

by Agatha Christie

Mrs. Otterbourne shook her head vigorously. “No, no. I am practically a teetotaller. You may have noticed I never drink anything but water—or perhaps lemonade. I cannot bear the taste of spirits.”

“I’m used to that. It often seems to me that’s all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again.”

AGATHA CHRISTIE is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.