Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18) in Appointment With Agatha

Mar 09, 2018 Shirley (stampartiste) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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This book just never gets old. I have read it several times over the years, and I enjoy it just as much each time. This is one of my favorite Agatha Christie books. I love the mystery and I love the locale (Egypt). To me, it is flawless. Dame Christie was definitely at the top of her form when she wrote this one in 1938.

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Mar 03, 2008 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head.

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Jul 24, 2022 Natalie aka Tannat rated it liked it · review of another edition

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2.5 stars

Another slow to start, melodramatic Christie. I was able to solve the crime "psychologically" without actually figuring out how it was done.

Christie wrote some great stuff, but this wasn't one of them. ...more

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Sep 01, 2015 C.P. Lesley rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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I have read so many Agatha Christies (almost all of them, in fact—although I can't always tell which, because the publishers keep changing the titles) over such a long period that even when I deduce the murderer, which rarely happens, I no longer know whether I really figured it out or just recalled the crucial features subconsciously. And so I thought here, until the end took me completely by surprise.

A classic "closed" murder mystery that takes place on a pleasure cruise between Aswan and the ...more

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Jul 29, 2011 Roseli Gomes rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Hercule Poirot está de férias, dessa vez em um País cheio de Mistério e encantadora arquitetura, no navio Karnack, em uma viagem insólita pelo Rio Nilo, um casal em Lua de Mel poderia passar despercebidos, não fosse a esposa Linnet Ridgewai, casada com Simon Doyle, a mulher mais rica da Inglaterra estar a bordo e ser vítima de perseguição e ameaças de assassinato...

Coronel Race, parceiro de outras aventuras com Hercule Poirot se vê às voltas com um possível terrorista, no meio de tantas intrigas ...more

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