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“It is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant”
- Hercule Poirot
Bringing you another of Agatha Christie’s work after Murder on the Orient Express, featuring the most celebrated detective Hercule Poirot, again on vacation where he falls foul of a murder on board of Nile river, followed by successive murders and the obvious connection between them.
Introduction
Book’s Name - Death on the Nile
Author’s Name - Agatha Christie
Genre - Crime Novel, Crime Fiction, Mystery
Language - British English
Synopsis - Spoiler Alert!
The story is a variation of Christie’s ‘country house murder’ but this time it involves a collection of passengers from various different backgrounds within the confines of a luxury cruise ship on the Nile river.
Poirot solves a series of murders on the cruise, starting with that of a wealthy English heiress. As he moves on with his inspection it seems everyone on board has something to hide.
The plot starts with Hercule noticing a young woman while dining out, Jacqueline de Bellefort (Jackie), much smitten in love dancing and dining with her fiance, Simon Doyle. The next day Jackie takes Simon to meet her best friend Linnet Ridgeway, the wealthy young heiress, in hope that Linnet will offer Simon a job.
Only to experience three months later Simon broke his engagement to Jackie and married Linnet. Poirot happens to encounter them on their honeymoon to Egypt where he himself is on a holiday.
Joining the team is Linnet’s trustee Andrew Pennington and others aboard with connections to Linnet. Poirot also meets his old friend, Colonel Race, who is seeking a murderer among the passengers.
About the Writer
Agatha Christie is a British writer known for her detective novels and short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
She is the best selling author of all time and known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in 100 foreign languages.
With being a writer she was also a traveller, playwright, wife, mother and surfer. The Guinness World Records lists her as the best selling fiction writer of all time. In 2013, she was voted the best crime novel writer.
On her work more than 30 feature films are based and most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games and graphic novels.
About the Book
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Death on the Nile is a fantastically well written novel being one of the best-loved and most famous works of Agatha Christie. It entails a sweeping mystery of love, jealousy and betrayal.
Though the book was written a long time ago it still marvels people today. The book was inspired by her travels in Egypt as she picks up geographical and historical details throughout her time there.
The book is at the top of the game here as it keeps readers on their toes winding through the false trails, mistaken assumptions and revelations with a definitely warm character, Hercule Poirot, navigating with quiet confidence and logic reasoning his way uncovering the murder.
Death on the Nile is being adapted into a film that is due out in the cinemas in February 2022, following the success of the 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express.
Previous adaptations of Death on the Nile include the 1978 feature film and the first radio adaptation based on the book in 1997. Since then, it has been adapted into a PC game and a graphic novel.
Analysis of Common Threads in her Novels
Christie’s crime novels often used the same story development with the main character - a detective or private investigator who discovers the murder or a past friend somehow associated with the murder.
In her novels she kills one or few main characters (suspects) of the story to leave readers shocked and confused that they were wrong about the criminal’s identity.
Another common thread in her novels was developing a psychological struggle to use topical references, simple diction and brilliant characters to make the readers feel as they were sitting in an audience and watching the plot build and unfold.
Her novels invite all types of readers into her stories with a brilliant combination of murder, good writing and her most famous protagonists - Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Famous Quotes
“Love can be a very frightening thing. That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”
“It is not the past that matters, but the future.”
“But then, how do you know?. Because I am Hercule Poirot I do not need to be told.”
“Love is not everything, Mademoiselle. It is only when we are young that we think it is.”
“Women, however charming, have this disadvantage: they distract the mind from food!.”
The Bottom Line
It is an engaging novel featuring a sophisticated group, an ingenious plot, clever deduction, swift-paced narrative with a little romance on the side lending glamour and first rate entertainment.
The book provides a bloody good read with Christie’s great eye of crime and outstanding characters often portraying stereotypes like that of self-centered socialites, oppressive mothers, and vengeful women and men, each described with exquisite detail, giving the readers suspense full of thrilling experiences.
If you are someone who enjoys crime fiction and novels, like me, this book is a must read to have on your list.
My ratings for the book - 5 on 5
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