Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)

by Agatha Christie

432 pages

English language

Published Aug. 31, 2004 by Berkley.

ISBN:: 978-0-425-20046-9

(41 reviews)

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway ( Linnet Doyle) had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, rich 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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Kathrin Passig reviewed Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

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3 stars

Das war mein erster Agatha-Christie-Roman (glaube ich), es kam mir passend für meine Situation (mittelalte Frau an altmodischem Urlaubsort) vor, mal einen zu lesen. Hercule Poirot war mir ganz sympathisch, aber das Innenleben von Figuren wird wie bei Christopher Isherwood durch weiß werdende Knöchel und errötende Ohren und so weiter dargestellt, alle 734 Personen sind tatverdächtig und es passiert unmäßig komplizierter Blödsinn mit adeligen Erbinnen. Ich habe mich nicht gelangweilt, möchte aber auch kein zweites Buch von Christie lesen.

Matthew Royal reviewed Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

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4 stars

We can't wait to watch the movie! There are moments of pure chemistry in this book between the characters, although things didn't end up entirely how we thought they would. Several subplots were a bit unbelievable, but overall a great audiobook for multiple weekend car trips.

UncoveredMyths reviewed Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

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4 stars

I really wanted to read this book.

Many of the other reviews go into depth about the good and the bad of it.

I generally give books where I have to skip pages due to romance very low scores, if I review at all. At least in this one, it is only a few pages.

I did catch a few typos.

There is too much confusion. The reader doesn't get to fully understand what the character knows, or is afraid of. Several times, it is almost on the tip of her memory. Perhaps, it is mostly blocked from her memory.

There are many unanswered questions. How can her brother be in a permanent position in the society at age seven, and yet, a 17 year old is not old enough to be allowed in a relationship? That's not biologically sound. At what age are they allowed in a relationship? And how much older is Jude than she, since she keeps bringing it up? So much fear in the community. Scary really.

It would seem that after an extinction event, society would be more likely to want to increase the number of children born, rather than decrease it.

Also, it feels as if the ending just stopped. If it had ended a page sooner, or later, it would have been a better cliff hanger.

I really did enjoy reading it. Read it in three days. I may look at the rest in the series to see if they answer any of the questions.