Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie’s most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life.Hercule Poirot recalls 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 is ever quite what it seems…

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Version: 2018-09-05

To my old friend Sybil Bennett

who also loves wandering about the world

Contents

Cover (#u0387d37f-74c1-59ab-ad3c-fc34eb377a3f)

Title Page (#uc188b98e-417d-5bec-9d04-b37664020186)

Copyright

Dedication (#u9d2e0ff5-7ffb-5685-9911-ad6bbe0c84ca)

Author’s Foreword

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24