death on the nile
1 summery of the book
death on the nile is a Hercule Poirot mistery novel by the author Agatha Christie. The stroy follows the main character, Poirot.
It all starts when Linnet, one of the richest ladies in London, steals the promised of her best friend, Jacqueline Bellefort. Linnet not only steals Simon Doyle away from her friend Jackie, but she marries Simon and they head off on their honeymoon in Egypt. In revenge, Jackie starts showing up at all the locations where the newliweds are present and harasses them.
While on board, Jackie shoots Simon in the leg one night in the saloon. On the same night, Linnet is shot in the head while she is sleeping. Poirot takes on the case with his friend and fellow investigation who has come aboard the ship, Colonel Race. During the investigation two more people are killed.
Just in the end of time, Poirot finds the murderers as the ship returns to port.
2. summery of the author
Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and died in 1976. She was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is known for the 66 detective novels and 14 ahort story collections, most of which revolve around the investigate work. She wrote the world´s longest-running play, a murder mistery, the Mousetrap. Christie was born in Devon. She served in a hospital durin the first world war. She was initially unsuccesful of getting her work published, but in 1920 her novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, launched her literary career.
3 description of the main characters
Linnet Ridgeway: Linnet is very rich and pretty and lot of people are very jealous of her.
Jackie: Jackie is very energetic and excited to get married. She desprate for Linnet to give Simon a job and she was engaged to Simon Doyle until Linnet stole him from her.
Hercule Poirot:Hercule is a detective who happens to be on vacation. He has to solve the mistery. He is a very famous detective and he also speaks french. Poirot is my favourite character because he is a very good detective and he is ablle to solve the murdder of Linnet with a lot of calm, despite the murder was very difficult.
Tim Allerton: Tim was discovered to be a jewel thief with his cousin, Joanna. He is very intelligent and very meticulous.
4. description of the context of the book.
The story takes place in England and Egypt. The story lasts one week and the epoch of the story is between 1930-1935
5 opinion
It is a novel very entertaining and there are a lot of of important events in the story. You don´t know who is the murderer until the last page so you can make your own opinion about who is the blame.
In my opinion the book it´s very interesting and I would recommend it for people who like mistery and adventure.
