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    Death on the Nile

    Written by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by David Suchet

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    About this audiobook

    Agatha Christie’s most exotic murder mystery, read by Hercule Poirot himself, David Suchet.

    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…

    Editor's Note

    One of Agatha Christie’s finest…

    “Death on the Nile” is considered one of Agatha Christie’s finest, and it’s being honored with a film adaptation starring Kenneth Branagh and Gal Gadot. When a rich socialite is found murdered on a luxury cruise ship, detective Hercule Poirot’s on the case to catch the killer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 18, 2006
    ISBN9780007248698
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    Death on the Nile
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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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    • 3/5
      Christy nearly overloads the boat with dead bodies this time as they take each other our one by one. Interesting and some nice travel description of a boat trip on the Nile.
    • 4/5
      The scene is carefully set in DEATH ON THE NILE. We first of all meet Linnet Ridgeway, heiress, friend to Jacqueline de Bellefort. The latter has recently fallen in love with the handsome Simon Doyle. It very much looks as if Linnet Ridgeway will marry Lord Windlesham.Hercle Poirot is again dabbling in retirement, a man of leisure, with enough funds to travel. He is contemplating a trip to Egypt to escape a grey English winter.In the next few pages the reader is introduced to the people who will be joining Hercule Poirot on his Nile cruise, and we learn, time having elapsed, that Linnet Ridgeway has recently married. As the blurb warns us, she has a number of enemies, and that makes her death inevitable. The novel is spent working out who the murderer is. Among the candidates is the person who has been stalking Linnet and her husband ever since they married.Hercule Poirot is assisted in this task by Colonel Race who is looking for an arch criminal but has no further information about his identity. Between them they work methodically through the candidates.It is obvious that Christie based the setting of the novel on her own travels in Egypt and on the Nile, although, as a blogger recently commented, the journey is now a bit different to what it was in the 1930s.I found myself wishing that the edition of DEATH ON THE NILE that I read had had a diagram of the layout of the Steamer Karnak on which they were travelling. The layout of the cabins seemed important in working out who had the opportunity to commit the murder. It was clear that Christie had a clear vision of the tour boat herself.As in many other Poirot novels, the Belgian's fondness for romance comes to the surface, and he does his best to foster romantic feelings of some of the young people in the novel, even to the point of tweaking the outcome of one of the minor crimes, something of which Colonel Race found it hard to approve.Colonel Race plays the role of Poirot's sounding board and confidante. This is the role often played by Captain Hastings, or by one of the women with whom Poirot strikes up a friendship. But even then Poirot finds it difficult to explain to Race where his little grey cells are leading him, and his final explanations come as a surprise to Race.
    • 4/5
      This is one of the most famous Agatha Christie novels, and like them all, it is a very good page turner, but it is not one of my particular favourites. While the Egyptian setting adds interest, the leading characters, especially the female ones, are more than usually irritating. The plot is more convoluted than is normally the case and the final resolution may strike some readers as a bit disappointing. Overall, a decent read, but not up there with And Then There were None or The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
    • 5/5
      The only reason I made this account was to listen to this book.
    • 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.
    • 5/5
      I had listened to an adapted audio version of Death on the Nile before, so I knew who had committed the main murder. However, I still enjoyed all the side stories and the character development. Besides the murders, there were also the mysteries of a stolen pearl necklace and a wanted criminal in disguise on the ship.
    • 4/5
      Spoiler - look out!I think because of the day and age in which I live, I figured out the plot pretty much as soon as the element of Linnet stealing Jacqueline’s man from her fell into place. Given what Poirot saw in the restaurant, it had to be true that they were in love and going to scam Linnet out of as much as they could. The motive is still a bit weak, but it was very obvious from the start.Despite that, it was enjoyable to read. Christie conveys the genteel atmosphere of her time and place so well that I am jealous that I cannot experience it. It is also a joy to read about Poirot’s methods of detection. He’s so smooth and so arrogant, but humble when it suits him. The unraveling comes slowly, but picks up speed once he has the solution and sets things in motion so that those responsible ‘out’ themselves and have to answer for their crimes. Nicely done as usual.
    • 4/5
      Crisp Eurocomic adaptation of classic murder mystery.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite Christies -- and I've read them all many times. Besides the plot and Poirot, the exotic setting and ambiance add to the enjoyment.
    • 4/5
      Audio book performed by David SuchetChristie is at her best in this mystery starring Hercule Poirot.Linnett Ridgeway has everything – beauty, youth, intelligence and incredible wealth. When her dear friend Jacqueline de Bellefort asks her to please give her fiancé, Simon Doyle, a job so that they can get a start in life together, Linnett agrees. But a few months later it is Linnett and Simon who are on their honeymoon, though Jackie seems to turn up everywhere … even aboard their cruise ship up the Nile. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!When Linnett is found dead in her cabin, the obvious suspect is Jackie. But at least five people can swear that she couldn’t possibly have done it. So who is the murderer? And why? Hercule Poirot may be on holiday in Egypt, but his “little grey cells” are working overtime. There are plenty of suspects and almost as many motives.David Suchet is perfect in his performance on the audio. He reads at the brisk pace a mystery requires, and seems to effortlessly handle the many different voices required for the large cast of characters. I could listen to him all day.
    • 4/5
      Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie features Hercule Poirot as her main character. In this outing Poirot solves a complex murder case while on vacation in Egypt. He is at his arrogant best as he questions his fellow passengers on a luxury river cruise that is travelling the Nile River.Without going into any specific details, this is a classic whodunit with many red herrings and interesting characters, many of whom had a grudge against the victim. Of course, Poirot eventually sorts through the clues and unmasks the correct guilty party and along the way manages to help his old friend Colonel Race uncover a terrorist and still has time to play matchmaker as well.It’s assortment of twists and turns along with an intriguing motive makes Death on the Nile a very enjoyable read and one of my favorite Christie mysteries.
    • 4/5
      Death on the Nile has been lingering at the bottom of my 'to read' pile for some time - in fact ever since I picked it up on a whim at the airport on the way to a holiday in Egypt and then decided it would be too much of a cliche to be spotted reading it by the pool. The story, of course, needs no introduction - a multitude of large and small-screen adaptations have seen to that - however don't let that put you off giving the original a read. This was my first Agatha Christie book. Detective fiction isn't usually my thing, but I can honestly say I enjoyed it thoroughly. Great literature it probably isn't, but this was an author who knew how to construct a plot and how to get you to keep those pages turning.
    • 5/5
      Is this the best Agatha Christie ever? I think so, even with Poirot instead of Marple. Great plot, great characters, great location.
    • 4/5
      A wealthy young newlywed is murdered on a honeymoon cruise on the Nile. Did her killer really believe he or she could get away with murder with Hercule Poirot as a fellow passenger?This is at least the second time I've listened to the audio version of the book. I've read it at least once, and I've seen a couple of television/film adaptations. Since I knew from the beginning who the murderer was and how the murder was carried out, I was able to pay close attention to Christie's plotting of the crime. She knew exactly where she was going with the story, and she carefully laid out the clues to the crime as well as quite a few red herrings, yet does it so naturally that even careful readers will miss many of them the first time through. Many writers try and fail to do what seems almost effortless for Christie.David Suchet is the perfect reader for a Poirot mystery. He's played Poirot on television for so long that his voice is what I hear mentally when I read a Poirot novel. Poirot sounds like Poirot, and, equally important, the other characters don't!
    • 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.
    • 4/5
      It's been some twenty years since I last read Agatha Christie, but unlike some authors I've returned to after all that time, she's as good as I remember. I thought I had the whodunnit figured out well in advance in this case, but I was pleased to discover I'd fallen for an artful red herring. Mystery isn't typically my genre, but for Hercule Poirot I'll make exception. Not much setting here (compared to the detailed descriptions of Egypt I recently read in "Memoirs of Cleopatra" for example) so I think she might have made more of the exotic locale, but I love the early twentieth century period of her novels and the coy dialogue. Think I'll check out one of the many movie versions now when I've the chance.
    • 4/5
      Of the three Poirot stories I have read, this is the best yet. While 'The Mystery of the Blue Train' was quite compelling, I thought the answer to the mystery (is 'denouement' the word?) was a bit weak and out of the blue (no pun intended). 'The Big of Four' had a plot that was, frankly, a bit ridiculous, and it lacked a proper climax. 'Death on the Nile', however, has got it all. The characters have genuine depth, the mystery is gripping, and, most important of all, Agatha Christie treats real problems in this book. Especially the plotline of Rosalie Otterbourne and her mother was, I thought, bold. By 1937 it seems, Christie had grown quite a lot as an author.I am thankful that this was the next Poirot novel I picked up; It's convinced me not to drop the stories about the funny little Belgian yet.
    • 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.
    • 5/5
      The quintessential murder mystery, sublime ambiance, quirky characters, improbable solution. Exotic and compelling. A thousand-times filmed (still best in the version with Peter Ustinov and Mia Farrow) and probably too chewed up by now to have any novelty value, this nevertheless remains my favourite among Christie's books.
    • 4/5
      Probably because it is one of the Christie novels made into a film (with an amazing cast including Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Maggie Smith) this is one of her most popular. I don't think it's one of her best though. I'd name And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Five Little Pigs, The ABC Murders, and my personal favorite is Death Comes as the End for the romance and setting in Ancient Egypt.Mind you, the famous Christie way with a twist is there in Death on the Nile--with the usual clever red herring and brilliant solution by Poirot. There are colorfully drawn characters and, as with all Christie's books, it's a fun read, even if slower-paced than most at the start since events build up to the murder, rather than beginning with a murder, and there's less local color than you might expect from its setting in a cruise on the Nile. I think part of the problem for me is the setup is too similar to Murder on the Orient Express--with a bunch of suspects traveling together but without the logical reason for them being all together that Murder on the Orient Express manages. The murders--how they were done--also seem more far-fetched. Nevertheless this is ranked four stars because it's handicapped by comparing it to Christie's best. If I were comparing it to the usual book on the mystery shelves in stores, it would win top marks.
    • 4/5
      Well, I'll start out by saying that I loved this book. If you want a good mystery, I've come to the conclusion that it's hard to go wrong with a good Christie book. Hey, even Doctor Who admires her. I've watched Agatha Christie stories on the BBC forever and after having read two of her other novels, And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express, I decided to pick this up because of it's setting in Egypt. I'm quite the fangirl of Ancient Egypt, so all the talk of it alone made the book quite fun. But as this is not just a scenic tour of Egypt but a mystery novel, so let me move on to the mystery. The previous two books by Christie that I read left me baffled throughout as to who the murderer was and who everyone actually was. I had no clue until the truth was finally revealed. Now, I really loved this story and all its little details, but it didn't have as much mystery for me due to the fact that I had figured out from the very beginning before the cast even made it to Egypt who was going to be the main victim and who the murderer(s) would be. The only person I didn't have figured out before the reveal was the thief, and even then it was more a matter of forgetting about that bit of the plot entirely. Perhaps it was lucky guessing or good intuition on my part, but the 'whodunnit' part of the mystery was just a little bit too obvious to me. It was still fun to watch it play out though. It was enjoyable in its own way because of it, I got a great deal of entertainment watching Poirot and Race struggle to reveal what I had already figured out. Even though I knew who had done what for the most part, I will admit that I had not entirely figured out all of the how before Poirot made his grand reveal.
    • 4/5
      Death on the Nile is one of the best in the Poirot series I read so far. The alibi in this case is ever so ingenious, and the side plots are intriguing as well.

      I am proud to say however that I feel that I'm getting better at figuring out who the assassin(s) are, but Christie still manages to get me quite on the wrong foot on many of the details.

      I like that fact that Death on the Nile is a little bit longer than the average book in the Poirot series so it has room for more descriptive narrative which adds so much to the atmosphere of the story. It's a story after all, not a puzzle.
    • 5/5
      Loved it, Christie writes the best Murder Mysteries.
    • 3/5
      Fun Christie mystery with the usual array of disparate characters, set in exotic Egypt.
    • 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.
    • 4/5
      One of Christies best, along with Orient Express and Ten Little Pigs. Set on a riverboat on the Nile, Egypt, Hercule Poirot is on holiday, when he meets socialite Linnet Ridgeway and her new husband Simon. When Linnet is murdered, her friend Jackie who was originally engaged to Simon before Linnet stole him, is the obvious suspect. When she is given an unshakeable alibi, it is up to Poirot to solve the mystery. I was given a lot of the original agatha paperbacks by my aunt when I was in primary school and fell in love with the old school imagery of england. I credit Christie, Enid Blyton and my Aunty Lilla for my love of reading.
    • 5/5
      My second Agatha Christie novel and one of the best mysteries I've read in a long, long time. I found myself enjoying the long set up of the story instead of just jumping to the murder right away, it made me feel more invested in the characters and story especially since the details you learn early on in the book all end up playing a part in the end. I wasn't completely surprised by the ending, but then the more mysteries you read the harder it gets to not see some of the twists coming. Still the resolution to the murder was well done if a bit rushed at the end after such a long set up and was quite plausible.
    • 4/5
      Linnett Ridgeway has almost everything: youth, beauty, brains, and money. Then her best friend Jackie brings her handsome fianc?, Simon Doyle, to visit and asks Linnett to give him a job. Now Linnett and Simon are on their honeymoon, a cruise up the Nile. When Linnett is killed, Jackie is the obvious suspect, but she couldn't have done it. It seems like an insolvable crime, until the famous detective Hercule Poirot starts to investigate. Death on the Nile deserves its reputation as one of Christie's best travel mysteries. This recording is capably read by another familiar name, David Suchet, who is well known among both mystery and public TV buffs as the actor who played the role of Poirot in a series of television adaptations of the author's stories. Expect the trio of Christie, Poirot, and Suchet to be a popular patron selection. St. Mary's Mead was always a quiet English village, at least until the body of Colonel Protheroe was found in the vicarage library. No one liked the murdered man. His first wife had abandoned him, and their teenage daughter kept out of his way. His much younger, second wife had recently fallen in love with a charming portrait painter. The list of possible suspects seems endless. Two different people confess to the murder. Did either do it? Enter Miss Marple, an elderly maiden lady whose gentle manners conceal an extensive knowledge of human depravity and exceptional deductive abilities. She flutters around, asks questions, and solves the crime. But it is the writing, not the plots, that keeps Christie fans coming back. James Saxon gives a clear, competent reading in Murder at the Vicarage, although initially his voice strikes one as brighter and sharper than one would expect from the gentle, scholarly rector.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      Just wanted a quick read and this was one. I read it straight through in a couple hours. This mystery jumps around between characters in the first part, establishing that many people have reason to hate rich, charismatic Linnet Ridgeway or at least have secrets of their own. Hercule Poirot gets a glimpse of Jacqueline de Bellefort early on and predicts that she will come to no good. On vacation in Egypt, he sees that he was right – Jackie has come to Egypt to stalk her former friend Linnet and Linnet’s new husband Simon, who used to be Jackie’s fiancé. The first half of the book doesn’t rush to the murder but shows Poirot interacting with the characters who populate the boat that is the setting for the crime.Pennington, a trustee of Linnet’s estate, is clearly a shifty character. Poirot finds Rosalie Otterbourne, a cold and bitter girl, to be secretive. Tim Allerton seems to have something against Poirot. Linnet’s maid and an employee on the boat also have motives. Christie ups the difficulty of the case by giving Jackie an alibi. The multiple secrets of the suspects, plentiful red herrings and tangential crimes are perhaps standard for the genre but the solution doesn’t go for the most obvious suspect or something out of left field. It was entertaining enough though the head-hopping narrative could be a bit messy and it’s unlikely that there would be multiple thieves and murderers on one boat just by chance.