Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot #18)

352 pages | Paperback

Hercule Poirot travels to Africa in this famous Agatha Christie mystery, now available as a Harper trade paperback

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…