Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

A book gains so much when it´s read where it´s set, doesn´t it? So when someone gave me ´Death on the Nile´ I booked a trip to Egypt to get the right atmosphere for the perusal. Sounds good, eh? Very posh, not quite correct, though. I did go to Egypt, it was when I was looking for adequate reading matter to take with me that I remembered this book. I had read it yonks ago and forgotten the plot completely, so I took it with me for the days we would ...
...takes us onto a boat cruising from Aswan in Upper Egypt through the cataracts up the river, a voyage which can´t be made any more after the building of the High Dam in Aswan (1960-1971), the part the protagonists were on has disappeared in the 500 km long Lake Nasser, nowadays cruises can be made only up to Aswan and then on a different ship on the Lake Nasser up to Abu Simbel. When she saw me reading the book, one of my fellow travellers asked ...

MALU 25.09.2005 · Read full review
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Agatha Christie was well travelled in the near and middle East as she accompanied her husband Max Mallowan, an archaeologist, on several of his digs. Christie wrote several books based in these areas, like this one, and the theme of archaeology runs through many of her writings. Due to her intimate knowledge, the backgrounds and scenery are very vivid and add a new dimension to her stories. The characters A rich society beauty has married and ...
...who was engaged to her best friend and they have found that the friend keeps turning up at every place they choose to stay. Boarding the Nile cruise at the last mojment was supposed to outwit Jacqueline - but she turns up there as well. This unhappy triangle has for company an alcoholic novel writer who's books are no longer popular accompanied by her sulky daughter, a mother and son who like travelling, the American trustee of the heiress wife, ...

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Review of Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

This is one of the best that Agatha Christie has written. While reading this, I thought that the murderer was one of several people and as I read it, my theory kept changing. Everyone had a grudge about someone else, they could all have done it. It wasn't until I got to the end of the book that I realised who it was. Whenever Agatha Christie writes a book, she makes you think that you know who it is but it is only a red herring. You have to wait ...

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