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Death on the Nile
by Agatha Christie
Linnet Ridgeway appears to have it all: youth, beauty, and a staggering fortune that allows her to reshape the English countryside to her whims. When her oldest friend, the impoverished Jacqueline de Bellefort, begs for a favor to help her new fiancé, Simon Doyle, Linnet is happy to oblige. However, as Hercule Poirot observes the passionate young couple in a London restaurant, he senses a dangerous imbalance of affection. The stage is set for a luxury cruise down the Nile where love, envy, and deadly intentions converge under the Egyptian sun.
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- Reading time
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- File size
- 1.4 MB
- Published
- 11/22/2011
- ISBN
- 9780061760174
- Formats
- EPUB
Linnet Ridgeway appears to have it all: youth, beauty, and a staggering fortune that allows her to reshape the English countryside to her whims. When her oldest friend, the impoverished Jacqueline de Bellefort, begs for a favor to help her new fiancé, Simon Doyle, Linnet is happy to oblige. However, as Hercule Poirot observes the passionate young couple in a London restaurant, he senses a dangerous imbalance of affection. The stage is set for a luxury cruise down the Nile where love, envy, and deadly intentions converge under the Egyptian sun.
What you'll take away
- Experience one of Agatha Christie's most celebrated 'foreign travel' mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot.
- Explore the complex dynamics of wealth, power, and social obligation in pre-war society.
- Witness the chilling transformation of a friendship into a triangle of obsession and betrayal.
- Navigate an elaborately worked-out plot that moves from the English countryside to the exotic Nile.
- Discover why Poirot fears for those who care 'too much' in the face of grand romance.
