Joy101 reviewed Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
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5 stars
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Hardcover, 297 pages
Portuguese language
Published 2008 by RBA.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-473-5902-8
- Goodreads:
- 7081429
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Linnet Ridgeway é uma jovem que tem tudo: beleza, riqueza, amor... e um cruzeiro pelo Nilo para gozar a sua lua-de-mel. Mas aparece misteriosamente assassinada no seu camarote. Um dos mais famosos casos de Hercule Poirot. A tranquilidade de um cruzeiro ao longo do Nilo é ensombrada pela descoberta do cadáver de Linnet Ridgeway. Ela era jovem e bela; e tinha tudo… até perder a vida! Hercule Poirot apercebe-se de que, a bordo do navio, todos os passageiros são possíveis assassinos: pelas mais diversas razões, todos tinham algo a apontar a Linnet. Mas quem terá sido levado ao acto extremo de a alvejar? Ainda que tudo aponte para a mesma pessoa, o detective cedo descobre que naquele cenário exótico nada é exactamente o que parece. "Morte no Nilo" (Death on the Nile) foi originalmente publicado em 1937, na Grã-Bretanha. A edição americana veria a luz do dia em 1938. O …
Linnet Ridgeway é uma jovem que tem tudo: beleza, riqueza, amor... e um cruzeiro pelo Nilo para gozar a sua lua-de-mel. Mas aparece misteriosamente assassinada no seu camarote. Um dos mais famosos casos de Hercule Poirot. A tranquilidade de um cruzeiro ao longo do Nilo é ensombrada pela descoberta do cadáver de Linnet Ridgeway. Ela era jovem e bela; e tinha tudo… até perder a vida! Hercule Poirot apercebe-se de que, a bordo do navio, todos os passageiros são possíveis assassinos: pelas mais diversas razões, todos tinham algo a apontar a Linnet. Mas quem terá sido levado ao acto extremo de a alvejar? Ainda que tudo aponte para a mesma pessoa, o detective cedo descobre que naquele cenário exótico nada é exactamente o que parece. "Morte no Nilo" (Death on the Nile) foi originalmente publicado em 1937, na Grã-Bretanha. A edição americana veria a luz do dia em 1938. O filme homónimo, de 1978, conta com um elenco de luxo, de onde se destacam os nomes de Peter Ustinov (naquela que seria a sua primeira interpretação de Hercule Poirot), David Niven, Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury e Maggie Smith. A adaptação para teatro, feita pela própria autora, estreou em Londres em 1946 e subiu aos palcos americanos no mesmo ano, sob o título Hidden Horizon.
anka.trini reviewed Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Marple >>> Poirot
3 stars
Ich bin einfach kein Hercule Poirot Fan; Miss Marple finde ich da um einiges sympathischer. Auch ihre Fälle fand ich (bisher) immer besser, weil sie nicht ganz so verrückt sind und weniger seltsame Verflechtungen beinhalten. Auch die Art, wie Hercule Poirot immer im großen Kreis seine Auflösung präsentiert.. Ich finde, er ist eine durchweg unsympathische Figur...
Dazu kam noch, dass ich selbst erraten hatte, wer der/die Täter*in/nen war/en. Und so was sollte bei einem Roman von Agatha Christie doch eigentlich gar nicht möglich sein.
Insgesamt war der Krimi dann doch unterhaltsam und hat mir eine gute Zeit bereitet. Das war jetzt aber trotzdem das letzte Mal, dass ich zu einem Roman mit Hercule Poirot greife.
JFernly reviewed Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Mostly good aside from the racism and stereotyping
4 stars
Otherwise very fun!
Review of 'Agatha Christie - Death on the Nile ( Latest Edition )' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This was my first foray into both Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot, and I must say, it did not disappoint. The story aged much better than I anticipated; I kind of went in assuming the book would be terribly racist based on the publication year and setting, but it wasn't. Instead, it was a fantastic romp through one of my favorite worlds, that of Rich People Being Messy. The obscenely wealthy Linnet Ridgeway marries the former fiancé of her best friend, Jacqueline de Bellefort, and the two of them plus the man in question wind up all together on a boat on the Nile, alongside a motley crew of other travelers. Linnet Ridgeway, of course, ends up dead, but evidence shows that Jacqueline could not have done it. So who did?
I will admit, I was surprised how long it took for Linnet to die. It's something like halfway through …
This was my first foray into both Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot, and I must say, it did not disappoint. The story aged much better than I anticipated; I kind of went in assuming the book would be terribly racist based on the publication year and setting, but it wasn't. Instead, it was a fantastic romp through one of my favorite worlds, that of Rich People Being Messy. The obscenely wealthy Linnet Ridgeway marries the former fiancé of her best friend, Jacqueline de Bellefort, and the two of them plus the man in question wind up all together on a boat on the Nile, alongside a motley crew of other travelers. Linnet Ridgeway, of course, ends up dead, but evidence shows that Jacqueline could not have done it. So who did?
I will admit, I was surprised how long it took for Linnet to die. It's something like halfway through the book that she's finally killed, which felt very different from contemporary mysteries I've read where there's a death practically if not literally on the first page. This made the first half of the book a little less interesting, as it was all setup and no crime solving, although I enjoyed the gossip-y feel of reading about all the Drama(TM) between the characters. The second half of the
book really had me in its clutches; the stakes continue to get higher as Poirot works, and it definitely kept me flipping the pages. The ending genuinely surprised me, although to be fair, I am pretty terrible at solving mysteries. I also think Poirot himself is hilarious and very fun, and I am definitely interested in reading more about him and more Christie in general. I hear And Then There Were None is pretty excellent; perhaps I'll read that one next.
Review of 'Agatha Christie - Death on the Nile ( Latest Edition )' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Shoutout to David Suchet, who read the audiobook, for showing me what true commitment to reading a story out loud sounds like.
Stephen Hayes reviewed Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
None
3 stars
At our last literary coffee klatsch someone mentioned reading [b:Murder on the Orient Express|7269156|Murder on the Orient Express|François Rivière|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1330556949s/7269156.jpg|19052226], and that led to a discussion of books about people in confined spaces. Our local library didn't have a copy of that, so I took this one out thinking that a boat, like a train, is a confined space. In a crime novel it limits the number of possible suspects.
Colonel Race, looking for a spy, teams up with Hercule Poirot to discover who murdered a wealthy tourist on a Nile steamer. After they have interviewed the main possible suspects Colonel Race made a list of "what we know so far", and it was at that point that I worked out whodunit, but not quite how it was done.
The bigger puzzle, for the first half of the book, was not trying to finger the perpetrator, but trying to work out …
At our last literary coffee klatsch someone mentioned reading [b:Murder on the Orient Express|7269156|Murder on the Orient Express|François Rivière|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1330556949s/7269156.jpg|19052226], and that led to a discussion of books about people in confined spaces. Our local library didn't have a copy of that, so I took this one out thinking that a boat, like a train, is a confined space. In a crime novel it limits the number of possible suspects.
Colonel Race, looking for a spy, teams up with Hercule Poirot to discover who murdered a wealthy tourist on a Nile steamer. After they have interviewed the main possible suspects Colonel Race made a list of "what we know so far", and it was at that point that I worked out whodunit, but not quite how it was done.
The bigger puzzle, for the first half of the book, was not trying to finger the perpetrator, but trying to work out who the victim would be.
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