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

by Agatha Christie

Volume 29 in the Agatha Christie Collection (1937) Limited edition of 800 copies worldwide

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything… until she lost her life.

Hercule Poirot recalled 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 was ever quite what it seemed…

• ISBN10: 0002310988
• ISBN13: 9780002310987
• Publish Date: 1 February 1999 (first published November 1969)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 13 May 2006
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: Collins Crime
• Edition: Media tie-in
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.co.uk

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.