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 everythinguntil she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: Id 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