Agatha Christie’s most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life.
Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Yet in this exotic setting’ nothing is ever quite what it seems…
琳内特·里奇卫拥有一切——年轻、美貌、过人的头脑,而且还继承了巨额财产。但出乎所有人的意料,她闪电般地与自己的地产经纪人,也就是好友奎杰琳的男友多伊尔结了婚。婚后幸福的二人决定去埃及度蜜月。决意复仇的杰奎琳、偷偷在琳内特财产上做了手脚的律师,以及其他许多似乎是外人的游客,与他们登上了同一条船。
在尼罗河上,惨案发生了,一颗子弹贯穿了熟睡中的琳内特的头颅……