‘ Death on the Nile’ conjectures the obvious setting of river Nile in Egypt and a death.

She surely gives you the best of travel and crime within the ‘confines of an armchair’. Christie considers this book to be one of her best ‘foreign travel’ books. Hence, you get the picturesque details of popular touristic places like Elephantine and Abu Simbel. Since then, the book’s popularity led to its adaptation for the stage, radio, a movie in 1978, and now an eagerly awaited movie release scheduled for September 2021.Īgatha Christie wrote ‘ Death on the Nile’ from her experience of a holiday on a streamer from Aswan to Wadi Halfa in Egypt. ‘ Death on the Nile’ is the 17 th book in the Hercule Poirot series, originally published on 1 November 1937. I wanted to read ‘ Death on the Nile’ for the sheer joy of revisiting Christie’s style of detective fiction writing. Nostalgia is what brings me to Agatha Christie books. Kenneth Branagh reprises both his directorial role and that of the iconic detective in the upcoming film adaptation of Death on the Nile.Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, Harper Collins Publishers, 373 pages In this famous Agatha Christie mystery, Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian adventure aboard a glamorous river steamer descends into a terrifying search for a murderer, with enough twists and turns to keep you unsettled and guessing until the final, shocking discovery.

Listen to an extract from the all new digital audio edition of Death on the Nile narrated by Kenneth Branagh, director and star of 20th Century Studios’ upcoming Death on the Nile feature film. The novel has since been adapted into a hidden object PC game and a graphic novel.

In 2004, ITV’s Agatha Christie’s Poirot saw David Suchet take on the role in an adaptation which included famous faces Emily Blunt and James Fox. John Moffatt played Poirot in the first radio adaptation based on the book in 1997 which was broadcast as a five-part serial. Previous adaptations of Death on the Nile include the 1978 feature film which starred Peter Ustinov in his first role as Hercule Poirot. Twentieth Century's Death on the Nile is due out in cinemas in February 2022, following the success of their 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express. As ingenious an alibi as can well be imagined.

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