Agatha Christie

Death on the Nile


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      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2010

      First published in Great Britain by Collins 1937

      Copyright © Agatha Christie Limited 1937.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007527557

      Ebook Edition © October 2010 ISBN: 9780007422289

      Version: 2020-08-20

      To my old friend Sybil Bennett

       who also loves wandering about the world

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

      Author’s Foreword

       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

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

       Chapter 30

       Chapter 31

       Keep Reading

       The Poirots

      About Agatha Christie

      The Agatha Christie Collection

       www.agathachristie.com

       About the Publisher

      Author’s Foreword

      Death on the Nile was written after coming back from a winter in Egypt. When I read it now I feel myself back again on the steamer from Assuan to Wadi Halfa. There were quite a number of passengers on board, but the ones in this book travelled in my mind and became increasingly real to me–in the setting of a Nile steamer. The book has a lot of characters and a very elaborately worked out plot. I think the central situation is intriguing and has dramatic possibilities, and the three characters, Simon, Linnet, and Jacqueline, seem to me to be real and alive.

      My friend, Francis L. Sullivan, liked the book so much that he kept urging me to adapt it for the stage, which in the end I did.

      I think, myself, that the book is one of the best of my ‘foreign travel’ ones, and if detective stories are ‘escape literature’ (and why shouldn’t they be!) the reader can escape to sunny skies and blue water as well as to crime in the confines of an armchair.

       Chapter 1

      ‘Linnet Ridgeway!’

      ‘That’s her!’ said Mr Burnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns.

      He nudged his companion.

      The two men stared with round bucolic eyes and slightly open mouths.

      A big scarlet Rolls-Royce had just stopped in front of the local post office.

      A girl jumped out, a girl without a hat and wearing a frock that looked (but only looked) simple. A girl with golden hair and straight autocratic features–a girl with a lovely shape–a girl such as was seldom seen in Malton-under-Wode.

      With a quick imperative step she passed into the post office.

      ‘That’s her!’ said Mr Burnaby again. And he went on in a low awed voice: ‘Millions she’s got…Going to spend thousands on the place. Swimming-pools there’s going to be, and Italian gardens and a ballroom and half of the house pulled down and rebuilt…’

      ‘She’ll bring money into the town,’ said his friend. He was a lean, seedy-looking man. His tone was envious and grudging.

      Mr Burnaby agreed.

      ‘Yes, it’s a great thing for Malton-under-Wode. A great thing it is.’

      Mr Burnaby was complacent about it.

      ‘Wake