num_pages: 352
description: Agatha Christie's most daring travel mystery.The tranquility of a lovely cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life.Who is also on board? Christie's great detective Hercule Poirot is on holiday. He 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.’ Despite the exotic setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems…
language: English
title: Death on the Nile
titlecomplete: Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
characters: Signor Guido Richetti, Andrew Pennington, Joanna Southwood, Rosalie Otterbourne, Lord Windlesham, Mr. Ferguson, Dr. Carl Bessner, Marie Van Schuyler, Hercule Poirot, Cornelia Robson, Colonel Race, Salomè Otterbourne, Tim Allerton, Jacqueline de Bellefort, Linnet Ridgeway, A criminal (Death on the Nile), Jim Fanthorp, Gaston Blondin, Sir George Wode, Rufus Van Aldin, Mrs. Allerton, Fleetwood, Simon  Doyle (Death on the Nile), Mrs. Leech, Naboth (Death on the Nile)
genres: Classics, Mystery, Adult, Murder Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 244379
places: Jerusalem, North Africa, Middle East, New York City, New York, Egypt, Nile River
series: Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race
publisher: Bantam Books