Death On The Nile
(Agatha Christie)
Death on the Nile is probably the most famous of Agatha Christie?s detective novels. Featuring the Belgian Hercule Poirot, this novel was also Christie?s personal favourite. Set in Egypt, the action is made even more vivid by descriptions based on the author?s own observations during her visits to this country, which was always very close to her heart.
The story is based around the character of Linnet Doyle, beautiful and wealthy, who is travelling along the Nile with her new husband and other holiday-makers. To her annoyance, one of these turns out to be her former best-friend, Jacqueline, who was once engaged to her husband.
Christie brings together a number of characters who seem to have appeared on the same cruise by complete coincidence, but of course, true coincidence does not really exist. Christie skillfully links the lives of the passengers, building up the suspense until the murder occurs. Of course, we have been expecting it, but we don?t know who it will be. The sub-plots and the cunning of the protagonists confuse the matter even further, and Christie never stops at only one murder?
The revelation of the murder is ingenious, as always, and could be considered the most interesting part of the novel. Christie?s talent lies in providing almost all the information necessary for the reader to piece together the story himself and arrive at the correct conclusion. At the same time she holds back just enough so that this is not fully possible. The reader recognises that he should have been able to work it out for himself, but that he has failed, and so Poirot?s ?little grey cells? seem all the more impressive. The complexity of the plot means that one can read this novel again and again without the story being spoiled by prior knowledge.
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