Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
After reading Murder on the Orient Express, I saw the movie and loved it. I also discovered that this book would be the next one that they made into a movie, so I wanted to get a jump on getting the book read.
It starts out introducing the characters, or rather, suspects. Primarily, the book focuses on Linnet Doyle, nee Ridgeway, who is super-rich. A friend brings her fiance to meet Linnet and perhaps get a job, and he and Linnet end up falling in love and getting married. While they are on their honeymoon in Egypt, the jilted lover keeps showing up.
One night on their Nile River cruise, Jacqueline, the jilted lover, shoots Simon, Linnet's husband. The following morning, Linnet is found dead in her cabin, and her expensive pearls are missing. What ensues afterward is Hercule Poirot, who is on vacation, trying to solve the murder and theft. Of course, he does.
I am impressed by Ms. Christie's ability to make the reader think they know whodunit, but the reader ends up being wrong. Well, this reader, at least. The culprit surprised the heck out of me on this one.
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