Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is the biggest selling novellist in history. Her popular whodunits have been enjoyed by readers all over the world for nearly a century and translated into more languages than Shakespeare. The subject of this review is one of her most well known novels, Death on the Nile. THE PLOT ====== The time is the late 1930s. Jacqueline de Bellefort is taking her fiancee, Simon Doyle, to meet her best friend, the very rich, and very beautiful, Linnet Ridgeway. Linnet herself is about to be married to the rather dull Lord Windlesham. When Linnet meets her friend's husband to be, she is impressed with her choice. Tall and ...  Read the complete review

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 (as my faithful readers know), 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 be cruising up the Nile. ´Death on the Nile´ 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 ...  Read the complete review