Now, it’s still from an Agatha Christie well in her prime so the unraveling of the mystery and her cast of characters are equally as fun as any other book. Perhaps expecting something as a spiritual follow up to Murder on the Orient Express is why this read was a bit underwhelming in places. This is a novel that has several interesting set pieces, puts the murder on a boat going down the Nile, and a red herring criminal conspiracy to bring in another of Christie’s lesser known detectives in Colonel Race who I am most familiar from Cards on the Table. While it does fit into the subset of Poirot stories with interesting locale against the usual British murder mystery format, it doesn’t support say a game changing twist or a particularly interesting comment on aristocracy like some of Christie’s other work. Filmed as sequels to Murder on the Orient Express twice, adapted by Christie into a play, and adapted into a television drama twice it is perhaps fascinating to see why it isn’t as iconic as the former novel. Death on the Nile is perhaps the most adapted Poirot novel from Agatha Christie behind Murder on the Orient Express.
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