Death on the Nile (Colonel Race, #3) (Parker Pyne Mysteries)

by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie’s most exotic murder mystery in a sumptuous hardback Special Edition.

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…

• ISBN13: 9780008386825
• Publish Date: 1 October 2020 (first published November 1969)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Imprint: HarperCollins
• Edition: Special edition
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 336
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.co.uk
• Special: Collector's Edition

Reviews

[thepunktheory]

Full review on my blog!

It has been a hot minute since I last read an Agatha Christie novel. However, when the new Death on the Nile movie came out, I just knew that I would have to read it so I could later complain about all the changes made for the movie.

[ibeforem]

What can you say about Agatha Christie? It’s a winner, of course. There’s a nice twist at the end of this, and Poirot says something rather interesting… “love stories always end in tragedy”. And I love the BBC audio productions.