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Death on the Nile

by Agatha Christie Book 18 in the Hercule Poirot series.

First published 1937

4.5(17,279)

Wealthy Linnet Ridgeway marries Simon Doyle, the former fiancé of her friend Jacqueline de Bellefort, and the couple travel to Egypt for their honeymoon. Jacqueline follows them, and the tension among the three intensifies aboard a Nile steamer carrying an international group of travellers.

When Linnet is murdered, Poirot and Colonel Race must reconstruct movements through cabins and public rooms while further violence removes apparently useful witnesses. The novel combines interwar luxury tourism with sharp attention to wealth, resentment and emotional obsession, using the closed river journey to reveal how several private schemes can coexist around one central crime.

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