Death on the Nile

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-Agatha Christie

The detective, Hercule Poirot, should solve the problem in Egypt when he was on holiday there. He was under pressure to break the puzzle and find out the killer of murderer in Egypt. Before it, there was a girl named Linnet, and she told to Poirot that how she was surrounded by enemies in that case. Then Poirot should solve the problem before the enemies strike again.

The tranquility 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.

Death on the Nile is a pre-Second World War novel, first published in UK on 1 November 1937 by the Collins Crime Club. It shows Agatha Christie’s interest in Egypt and archaeology and also reflects much of the flavour and social nuances of the pre-war period. Although the novel is set in Egypt, an exotic location, it is essentially a ‘locked room mystery’, as the characters are passengers on the river-steamer SS Karnak, cruising on the Nile. Amongst them is the famous Hercule Poirot, a short man dressed in a white silk suit, a panama hat and carrying a highly ornamental fly whisk with a sham amber handle – a funny little man.

by Dini Dwintika Karuniati

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