Book description
Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking
cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie
fans and book lovers.
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… “The construction is flawless.”
Daily Mail
“Must be read twice, once for enjoyment and once to see how the wheels
go round.” The Times
“The main alibi is of the first brilliance … the descriptive work hits,
as it were, the Nile on the head.” Observer
“A peach of a case for Poirot. I take my hat off to the author for as
ingenious an alibi as can well be imagined.” Sunday Times Agatha
Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the
best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair
at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us
to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime
fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the
Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English
language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the
author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six
novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
