Description
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had
been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything… until she lost her life.
Hercule Poirot recalled 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 was ever quite what it seemed…
“As ingenious an alibi as can well be imagined?
Sunday Times
The descriptive work hits the Nile on the head?
Observer
