Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

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…

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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.

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