The following night in the steamer's lounge, Jacqueline expresses her bitterness toward Simon. Race tells Poirot that he seeks a murderer among the passengers. At Wadi Halfa, Poirot's friend Colonel Race boards the steamer for the return trip. Jacqueline is suspected of pushing the boulder off the cliff, but she was aboard the steamer at the time of the incident. While visiting Abu Simbel when Karnak stops there, Linnet narrowly avoids being crushed to death by a large boulder that falls from a cliff. The other Karnak passengers include Linnet's maid Louise Bourget her trustee Andrew Pennington romance novelist Salome Otterbourne and her daughter Rosalie Tim Allerton and his mother elderly American socialite Marie Van Schuyler, her cousin Cornelia Robson and her nurse Miss Bowers outspoken communist Mr Ferguson Italian archaeologist Guido Richetti solicitor Jim Fanthorp and Austrian physician Dr Bessner. Simon and Linnet secretly follow Poirot to escape Jacqueline but find she had learned of their plans and boarded ahead of them. Poirot refuses the commission and unsuccessfully attempts to dissuade Jacqueline from pursuing her plans. Linnet had recently married Jacqueline's ex-fiancé, Simon Doyle, which has made Jacqueline bitterly resentful. She wants to commission him to deter her former friend Jacqueline de Bellefort from hounding and stalking her. While on holiday in Aswan to board the steamer Karnak, set to tour along the Nile River from Shellal to Wadi Halfa, Hercule Poirot is approached by successful socialite Linnet Doyle née Ridgeway.
The novel is unrelated to Christie's earlier short story of the same name, which featured Parker Pyne as the detective. The action takes place in Egypt, mostly on the River Nile. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. Death on the Nile is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 1 November 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year.
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