Death On The Nile

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

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Author’s Foreword

Chapter 1

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Chapters 8-10

Chapters 11-13

Chapters 14-16

Chapters 17-19

Chapters 20-22

Chapters 23-25

Chapters 26-28

Chapters 29-31

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Author’s Foreword

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Author’s Foreword

Christie explains that she wrote the novel after coming back from a holiday in Egypt, and that for her the characters are vivid and real, especially the central characters of Linnet, Simon, and Jackie. Christie describes Death on the Nile as the best of her mysteries set in foreign lands.