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    Death on the Nile: A Parker Pyne Short Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology Parker Pine Investigates.

    Parker Pyne is on a ship sailing up the Nile from Assouan to Cairo. Among his fellow passengers are a group of wealthy British travelers and their companions. One of them, Lady Grayle, soon lets Pyne know that someone is trying to poison her. All the evidence points to her husband, but can Pyne save her before the killer gets his wish?

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    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 29, 2013
    ISBN9780062302670
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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    Reviews for Death on the Nile

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    • 3/5
      I picked this book because it is set in Egypt and I was going to be there when I was reading it. For me one of the best things about this book was recognising all the places I had been to the previous week.

      Despite having seen a tv adaptation of this I couldn't remember anything about it other than it's location so that made it quite an enjoyable read for me, as I had no idea who the victim or in this case victims were going to be. I think by Poirot's usual standards it is a bit of a bloodbath.
    • 4/5
      I decided to read this book after cruising the Nile and seeing the hotel where Agatha Christie stayed on her visit to Egypt. I thought it would be fun to read while the places she mentions in the book are still fresh in my mind.I liked this story very much....even though I'm not a mystery fan in general. Ms. Christie did keep me guessing along with Mr. Poirot as he tried to solve the murders on the ship.
    • 3/5
      Death on the Nile is your typical Hercule Poirot mystery involving a menagerie of colorful yet mysterious characters and an inconvenient murder during a holiday outing. I used to read Agatha Christie novels as a child, mainly due to a fascination with the ingenious deductive methods of the extraordinary "sleuth," and seemed a bit more accessible than Sherlock Holmes at the time. While I enjoy Hercule Poirot as a character, the mystery novel format of gathering a dozen or so red herrings around a convoluted murder plot and then unraveling false leads one by one in agonizing detail can become a bit monotonous. This is especially true of Death on the Nile, with a less than plausible murder plot and peripheral characters whose only role is to provide inconsequential side "mysteries" for Poirot to solve along the way. Of course, this is precisely what most people read Agatha Christie novels for, but I would argue that, even in this regard, Death on the Nile is not the strongest entry into the genre. Entertaining, but overall, not impressive.
    • 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
      Synopsis: Two people are being persecuted by a woman who is still in love with the man. She follows them all over, finally confronting them during their honeymoon on the Nile. Of course Hercule Poirot finds the clues and understands what is happening.Review: As with all of the Poirot novels/stories,this one drags in places, but the plot is riveting.
    • 3/5
      In which the Belgian detective’s Egyptian holiday is ruined by love triangles, tourists, and murder.

      "Death on the Nile" is, in many ways, the quintessential Agatha Christie novel. Amidst a colourful setting, a variety of characters – some openly shadowy, others repressing their quirks – are suspected in a locked-room murder, while romances and rivalries obfuscate Poirot’s attempts to untangle the situation. There’s no surprise, then, that this is one of her most well-known works, and opened the Peter Ustinov “all-star” film series of the ’70s and ’80s. As with all Christie’s work set in Africa and the Middle East, she devotes a good deal of time to the lush setting, although here it feels less textured than "Murder in Mesopotamia" or "Appointment with Death". Both the Ustinov and Suchet films have been very successful, although how can you really go wrong with a steamer on the Nile?

      On a personal level, though, I’ve always found this novel to be a little cold and analytical. Perhaps I was just not drawn into the lives of the characters, whose scattershot nature conflicts with their seeming familiarity with one another. ("Murder on the Orient Express" succeeds for the opposite reason: everyone tries to keep to themselves, making us wonder who is connected to each other. Here, no one can keep to themselves, making us wish they would.) Or perhaps the murder – which is cleverly done, and will hopefully leave most people surprised – just relies on too many coincidences for my liking. Ultimately, though, I think I’m biased against this because I guessed the murderer’s identity. It’s probably the only Christie we’re I’ve ever done so, and the lesson I learnt was that I’d rather be surprised!

      [Incidentally, Colonel Race makes his final appearance in Christie's canon and, although his part could have been played by any old friend of Poirot's, it's nice to see Christie continue to interweave her narrative worlds.]

      In short, top marks for construction, and it’s certainly famed for a reason, but it’s just not my bag.

      Poirot ranking: 14th of 38
    • 4/5
      In which Hercule Poirot goes on holiday to Egypt and ends up on a Nile cruise with an immensely wealthy young woman, her newlywed husband, the husband's jilted lover who was also the wealthy lady's best friend, and an assortment of other characters with varying levels of interest in or connection to the central triangle. Someone gets killed, someone gets accused, someone else gets killed, someone else gets accused ... you know the drill. I think I must have read this one long ago in my high school Christie phase, because I was sure I knew who the murderer was even though I couldn't figure out how or why. It's a good one, made better by the absence of that dotard Hastings.
    • 4/5
      The murder occurs about halfway through. I knew nothing beforehand, so it was fun to guess who would bite the dust. After the murder, there are a few good suspects and you get a good run of intrigue. Some endings are obvious. The clues are there, but, at the reveal, it felt too contrived. Why did so and so do that with the weapon? Why was that other item not given the same fate as the weapon? Silly.
    • 4/5
      enjoyed this book nearly as much as Murder on the Orient Express, although I was surprised it took so long for the murder victim to be revealed. The plot was both a little predictable (something was up with that love triangle from the beginning) and good in the way that an old sweater is comfortable.
    • 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.
    • 2/5
      Klassiek Poirotverhaal, met nogal doorzichtige plot en Poirot als God de Vader.
    • 5/5
      A re-read of one of my favorite Christie novels. This and Murder on the Orient Express tie for my favorite Hercule Poirot mystery. I love the variety of characters and the complexity of the mystery. Even though I knew how the story was going to end, I enjoyed the journey nonetheless. Now off to re-watch the movie because that's a favorite of mine, too.
    • 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
      Another audio book of an Agatha Christie mystery. We just love these. We started this one on our trip home from a visit to my parents' in April and didn't manage to finish. We kept meaning to knock it out of an evening or two but never got to it, so we finished her up on our drive to pick up Thursday. This has always been one of my favorites plot-wise, though gosh, the awfulness of some of her characters. We were a little wary of Suchet as narrator (only because we love [[Hugh Fraser]] so very much; Suchet is of course most excellent as Poirot himself on the TV) but he did a wonderful job. Recommended.
    • 2/5
      Klassiek Poirotverhaal, met nogal doorzichtige plot en Poirot als God de Vader.
    • 4/5
      Always good!
    • 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.
    • 4/5
      Crisp Eurocomic adaptation of classic murder mystery.
    • 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.
    • 4/5
      This was ingenious. I'm deducting a star for Poirot letting various people either off the hook completely or to take the easy way out.
    • 5/5
      I'm starting to re-read the Hercule Poirot series by Agatha Christie and "Death on the Nile" is purported to be one of her best. I loved it. Poirot can be such an insufferable narcissist but that's part of his charm. And the datedness of the writing is also part of the charm of the book. Three murders in this one and a fabulous ending to wrap it all up.
    • 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
      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
      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
      A pretty good yarn. The reader may have been a bit over his head with some of the voice work, but all in all it was entertaining and that is all I ask from audiobooks.
    • 4/5
      Linnet Ridgeway is not only beautiful but also wealthy, intelligent, and lucky. When she meets her friend's fiancé, Simon Doyle, she decides that she needs to have him, and in short order, Simon becomes her husband. The two take a honeymoon cruise on the Nile. where they just happen to encounter a full cast of characters - several of whom are somehow connected to Linnet. It's lucky that, when Linnet turns up dead on the ship, Hercule Poirot is there to begin an investigation.Agatha Christie is always a lot of fun. I read this one pretty quickly, and it was a lot of fun to watch how the story unfolded.
    • 4/5
      Four and a half stars, really (Goodreads, sort this out please). One of the better Poirot novels. I loved the resolution and the denouement was supremely interesting and the whole plot very believable. I think Murder on the Orient Express takes the cake with the solution but Death on the Nile is quite genius and not void of Christie's earlier novels' humour. It raises interesting questions about justice, not in the profound way Orient did but still. Very good read indeed.
    • 3/5
      Abridged audiobook on 3 CDs, read by David Timson. Heiress steals friend's fiancee, friend starts blatantly stalking, even unto the honeymoon cruise on the Nile. Heiress is found murdered, and as the husband points out, the ex-friend has an obvious motive. The one problem is that she couldn't possibly have done it. Nor could any of the other people the heiress has provided with motives. The abridged audiobook has been well edited for the plot, but does by necessity skimp on the character development and social observation. There's also an unabridged audio edition, read by David Suchet, which I've not yet listened to.
    • 4/5
      This was my second Christie novel (the first being And Then There Were None) and my first Poirot. I'm not sure if they should be read in order, but at any rate I didn't feel like I was really missing anything so I'm going to assume I didn't miss anything by reading it out of turn. It was quite an ingenious mystery. I thought I'd had it all wrapped up a time or two only to find out that no, I had no clue. The writing was wonderful. As with And Then There Were None, I kind of had a hard time following who was who. Even up until the end there were a couple of people that I kept getting confused with each other. Still, it was entirely enjoyable, and I'll definitely pick up another Poirot in the future.
    • 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.