Death on the Nile (Poirot)

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Um livro com um ritmo muito prazeroso e que me manteve em suspeita por todo o tempo. (editor colocar capa do livro na tela com um motion cheio de efeitos) What a gem! It’s always fun to read an Agatha Christie Mystery. I believe I read this one many, many years ago, and watched the old movie version starring Peter Ustinov- also many, many years ago. But the details have mostly vanished from my memory now. So, while the story is familiar, I was still riveted from start to finish! In Death on the Nile he manages to put his excellent matchmaking skills to such good use that you get not one but two weddings...and a funeral. Another film adaptation, also called Death on the Nile, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, was released on February 11, 2022. It is the follow-up to the 2017 film Murder on the Orient Express. Some characters and details are either omitted or differ from the novel, while the elements of the central murder remain unchanged. Bouc replaces the character of Tim Allerton, and he is joined by his mother, Euphemia. Salome Otterbourne is now a jazz singer and no longer a drunk, while Rosalie is her niece whom she adopted. Bouc is the third person killed instead of Salome Otterbourne. Linnet's lawyer Andrew is now also her cousin, and Mrs. Van Schuyler and Miss Bowers are a lesbian couple. Mrs. Van Schuyler is also the godmother of Linnet. All the suspects are friends of the married couple who have invited them to their honeymoon celebration. A World War I romance is invented for Poirot, and it is hinted that Poirot and Otterbourne have romantic feelings for each other. M. Gastin Blondin owns a famous London restaurant called Chez Ma Tante, where Hercule Poirot enjoys excellent service because he once helped Blondin by solving a crime that would have put him in a jam…

I’ve got to be frank here: this was a bitch move. This is not a case of love at first sight where they were moved by high passions, or soul mates finally finding each other. It almost seems like Jacqueline has vetted this guy, and she really likes him so he will do nicely as a husband. E R Punshon of The Guardian in his review of 10 December 1937 began by saying, "To decide whether a writer of fiction possesses the true novelist's gift it is often a good plan to consider whether the minor characters in his or her book, those to whose creation the author has probably given little thought, stand out in the narrative in their own right as living personalities. This test is one Mrs Christie always passes successfully, and never more so than in her new book." [7] While everybody rushed to get help, he went and killed Linnet in her bed before returning and shooting himself for real. He had drugged Poirot with a glass of champagne to ensure he was out of action on the night, and it was Simon's plan to fill the wedding party with people who held grudges against Linnet. Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do- clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth”. - Poirot First things first, the unfortunate victim is the newly married Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle (Gal Gadot) who is found dead in her bed one morning during their honeymoon cruise, with a single gunshot to the head.This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater. Confronted, Simon and Jacqueline confess to the plot. Jacqueline says that she and Simon have always been in love, and Simon never cared for Linnet, even when she tried to steal him away from Jacqueline. Jacqueline tells Poirot that the idea of murdering Linnet for her money was Simon's, but she planned it, knowing Simon was not smart enough to pull it off by himself. two bottles of nail polish in Linnet's room, one labeled "Cardinal" (a deep, dark red) and the other "Rose" (pale pink), but the one that was supposed to be pink had only some drops of bright red ink; The steamer continues to its ultimate destination of Wadi Halfa, where Poirot’s old acquaintance Colonel Race comes aboard. Race says that he is looking for a political agitator who is responsible for several murders and that he has good intelligence that this person will be on the Karnak. The steamer begins its return journey. Louise Bourget is interviewed in Dr. Bessner's cabin, while Bessner is ministering to Simon. She says she saw nothing on the night of the murder but would have done "if" she had left her cabin. This choice of words sounds strange to Poirot.

Miss Van Schuyler is a wealthy American spinster who travels with her cousin Cornelia Robson and her nurse, Miss Bowers. She is a stereotypical spoiled old rich lady who disdains most of the other… Poirot then interviews all the passengers. Several of them heard a splash shortly after midnight, and Miss Van Schuyler claims that she looked out her window and saw Rosalie Otterbourne throw something overboard. But Rosalie denies this. A short time later, the murder weapon is recovered from the Nile – Jacqueline's pistol, wrapped in Miss Van Schuyler's missing velvet stole. To Poirot, this makes no sense, when someone wanting to incriminate Jacqueline would have left her pistol behind to incriminate her. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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...Hercule Poirot refers to previous cases once or twice. In Murder of the Orient Express he absolved the guilty completely. In Death on the Nile, he regrets bringing the murderer to justice, but carries out this task still. Agatha Christie adapted the novel into a stage play which opened at the Dundee Repertory Theatre on January 17, 1944, under the title of Hidden Horizon and opened in the West End on March 19, 1946, under the title Murder on the Nile and on Broadway on September 19, 1946, under the same title. The Sittaford Mystery - Why Didn't They Ask Evans? - And Then There Were None - Death Comes as the End - Sparkling Cyanide - Crooked House - They Came to Baghdad - Destination Unknown - The Pale Horse - Endless Night - Passenger to Frankfurt As in many, many instances of misspelled words, no spaces where there should be spaces, and quotation marks missing in almost every chapter. Of course, murder finds him wherever he goes, like an ancient curse. One of the passengers, Tim Allerton, makes a very rash statement regarding my favorite Belgian detective.

This is a twisty whodunnit with a huge cast that each has their own secrets to protect. Jewel thieves, bigamists, terrorists, alcoholics, and cleptomaniacs are all sniffed out one at a time by the little Belgian detective. Still, by the end of it all, you care quite a bit about the characters that make up this incredibly colorful group of passengers. And yes, Jacqueline, Linnet, and Simon are the stars but not necessarily the ones you're rooting for by the end of the book. Wealthy heiress Linnet Ridgeway has it all: beauty, charm, and money. And now she has love too, marrying the man of her dreams and starting their lives together with a honeymoon in Egypt. But this exotic trip to a faraway locale is turning up a surprising number of familiar faces. And when their cruise along the Nile turns deadly, Hercule Poirot must step in and solve the case. the fact that Poirot only drinks wine with dinner, while his two usual dinner companions, the Allertons, drink something else; The Times Literary Supplement's short review of November 20, 1937, by Caldwell Harpur, concluded, "Hercule Poirot, as usual, digs out a truth so unforeseen that it would be unfair for a reviewer to hint at it".

Enemies, my sweet. You’re so devastatingly efficient. And you’re so frightfully good at doing the right thing.’ tremendo pero MAL. creo q fue el primer policial q posta te deja flipando a toda hora. me reía cada 2x3 de lo viva q es al escribir y de los comentarios de los personajes. ALTO plot twist al final. epico ePICO. una bestia la agatha christie. This is only the second time that I read Death on the Nile. I remember the sublime subterfuge of the guilty party, but thought there were only two deaths in the book. In fact there are five deaths and the book has a quite hectic pace. Death on the Nile was turned into a hidden object PC game, Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile, in 2007 by Flood Light Games, and published as a joint venture between Oberon Games and Big Fish Games. [10] The player takes the role of Hercule Poirot as he searches various cabins of the Karnak for clues, and questions suspects based on information he finds. Christie often stayed at Abney Hall in Cheshire, which was owned by her brother-in-law, James Watts. She based at least two of her stories on the hall: the short story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, and the novel After the Funeral. Abney Hall became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all the servants and grandeur which have been woven into her plots.

MY THOUGHTS: Classic Christie! This filled in a wet and stormy autumn afternoon for me, curled up on the couch with the cat and a pot of tea. A friend to Linnet and Lord Windlesham, as well as a cousin to Tim Allerton, Joanna is well-connected to the central events of the story, though she plays a small role. Mrs. Allerton… Poirot meets his friend Colonel Race, who is joining everyone on the boat for the return trip. Race tells Poirot that one of the passengers is a deadly criminal who has murdered several other people, only Race has not yet identified him. At the Movies. Agatha Christie famously hated most film adaptations of her works. While she generally liked the 1974 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, she complained that the actor who played Poirot (Albert Finney) had a weak mustache compared to the magnificent one she’d written. She wasn’t alive to comment on the mustaches of future on-screen Poirots, which include Peter Ustinov, David Suchet, Alfred Molina, and Kenneth Branagh.

Linus Windlesham (a nearly unrecognizable Russell Brand) stands in for two characters: Charles Windlesham, a lord rejected by Linnet, and Dr. Bessner, who takes care of Simon after Jacqueline shoots him in the leg. In The New York Times Book Review for February 6, 1938, Isaac Anderson concluded after summarising the set-up of the plot that, "You have the right to expect great things of such a combination [of Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot] and you will not be disappointed.". But a few more murders make the streamer into a scene of chaos. It is up to Poirot to solve the murders and put an end to this before anyone else gets murdered, including him. Who killed Linnet and why? Book and Author History Jacqueline is one of the primary antagonists of the novel, originally a friend to Linnet and the fiancé lover of Simon. All that changes, however, when Linnet offers Simon a job (at Jacqueline’s request)…