Death on the Nile is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 1, 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00.
The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The action takes place in Egypt, mostly on the Nile River.
Linnet Doyle and her husband, Simon Doyl...
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Death on the Nile is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 1, 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00.
The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The action takes place in Egypt, mostly on the Nile River.
Linnet Doyle and her husband, Simon Doyle are in Egypt for their honeymoon. Simon Doyle was once engaged to Linnet's best friend, Jacqueline De Bellefort. The Doyles board the S.S. Karnak for a trip along the Nile River along with many other passengers. They are: novelist, Salome Otterbourne and her daughter, Rosalie, Mrs. Allerton and her son, Tim, Linnet's American lawyer and trustee Andrew Pennington, Linnet's maid Louise Bourget, American socialite Miss Van Schuyler and her niece Cornelia Robson, Miss Schuyler's nurse Miss Bowers, a mysterious man named Mr. Ferguson, the...
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