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Linnet Ridgeway married her former classmate Simon Doyle after making him her land agent. They went on their honeymoon to Egypt. Meanwhile, other passengers were traveling to Egypt, including Linnet's former friend Jackie who was jealous of her marriage. On board a cruise up the Nile, Jackie shot Simon's leg in a drunken rage. The next day, Linnet was found murdered in her cabin. Hercule Poirot investigated and determined it was an elaborate plot by Simon and Jackie to kill Linnet so they could inherit her money and marry each other. However, their plan went wrong and more passengers were killed before the couple took their own lives.

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Death On The Nile Summary

Linnet Ridgeway married her former classmate Simon Doyle after making him her land agent. They went on their honeymoon to Egypt. Meanwhile, other passengers were traveling to Egypt, including Linnet's former friend Jackie who was jealous of her marriage. On board a cruise up the Nile, Jackie shot Simon's leg in a drunken rage. The next day, Linnet was found murdered in her cabin. Hercule Poirot investigated and determined it was an elaborate plot by Simon and Jackie to kill Linnet so they could inherit her money and marry each other. However, their plan went wrong and more passengers were killed before the couple took their own lives.

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DEATH ON THE NILE

Chapter 1

Linnet Ridgeway was ‘the girl who had everything’. Rich, intelligent and beautiful, she has just bought a new
property – Wode Hall, and Lord Windlesham wants to marry her. Her friend Joanna, who envied her position and
was delighted with her pearls, was with her when Linnet’s former classmate, Jaqueline de Bellefort, visited her.
Jackie was engaged to Simon Doyle, a handsome though poor young man. Not in a wealthy position herself, Jackie
wanted Linnet to employ Doyle as her land agent, so that they could marry and go to Egypt on their honeymoon.
Linnet gave him the job, but eventually married Doyle herself, and they went to Egypt for their honeymoon and
stayed at the Cataract Hotel.

In the meantime, other people were on their way to Egypt. There were Linnet’s lawyers; Mr Pennington, from the
USA, and Jim Fanthorp, from England, who look after her financial interests; Joanna Southwood, one of Linnet’s
friends, who was interested in her pearls; Tim Allerton, Joanna’s cousin, and his mother, Mrs Allerton; an engineer,
whose plans to marry Linnet’s former maid even though he’s already married, have been thwarted by Linnet; Mrs
Otterbourne, a frustrated writer of cheap novels and her daughter, Rosalie; Miss Van Schuyler, an arrogant
American lady with her niece, Cornelia Robson, and her secretary, Miss Bowers; and Dr Bessner. Hercule Poirot, a
retired detective, was also on his way, as was his friend Colonel Race who was in search of a violent political leader.

Chapter 2

Once in Egypt, Linnet and Simon found that Jackie, who had threatened to kill them, was following them. At
Linnet’s request, Poirot, who had been told the story, tried to persuade Jackie to abandon her ideas of revenge.
Simon and Linnet tried to escape from Jackie by taking a cruise up the Nile on the steamboat, Karnak. To their
surprise, they met Jackie. Poirot, Mr Pennington, Miss Van Schuyler, Cornelia, Miss Bowers, Tim and Mrs Allerton,
Mrs Otterbourne and Rosalie were also on the Karnak. During the first days in Egypt, Mr Pennington tried to make
Linnet sign some documents without her reading them but Mr Fanthorp advised her not to sign.

Chapter 3

The ship arrived at Abu Simbel where the passengers could visit the temple. Linnet and Simon were resting in the
sun when sliding rocks almost killed Linnet. Back on the ship, Linnet mistakenly opened a telegram for Mr Richetti,
another passenger, and he reacted quite rudely towards her. Colonel Race, an officer working for the British
government, joined the trip. He was an old acquaintance of Poirot’s and he told him he was trying to find a violent
political leader. On the second evening in Abu Simbel, after Poirot and Linnet had gone to sleep, Jackie, half drunk,
shot Simon in the leg. Simon asked Mr Fanthorp and Cornelia to take Jackie to Miss Bowers and asked her to take
care of Jackie. He also asked them to fetch Dr Bessner and to say nothing to his wife. He couldn’t walk so he was
taken to the doctor’s cabin. Fanthorp looked for the pistol that Jackie had dropped in the lounge, but couldn’t find
it. In the morning, Linnet was found dead in her cabin, a bullet in her head, killed between 12 and 2 a.m. There
was a big letter J painted on the wall.
Chapter 4

Mr Poirot and Colonel Race interviewed all the passengers on board. Linnet’s maid, Louise Bourget, who found
Linnet’s body that morning, didn’t know whether Linnet’s pearls, which had disappeared, were in the cabin the
night before. Miss Van Schuyler said that she had seen Rosalie throwing something overboard at about one o’clock
in the morning which Rosalie denied. Mr Fanthorp and Cornelia’s recollection of the events in the lounge the night
before provided Jackie and Simon with alibis.

The pistol, which had disappeared from the lounge, is found in the water, wrapped in a velvet shawl through
which it has been shot. Several passengers had heard a splash during the night.

Chapter 5

While Poirot was working on the case, inspecting the cabins in search of the pearls, he found the body of Louise,
and a piece of a hundred-pound note in her hand. She was blackmailing the murderer.

Poirot finally revealed how the murders had been committed and who had committed them. It was Simon and
Jaqueline who had carefully planned the murder of Linnet so that Simon would inherit her money and they could
then get married. Jackie had not in fact aimed the gun at Simon. He had only pretended to be wounded and used
a handkerchief with red ink to convince witnesses that he had been shot. He had then made sure that he and
Jackie had an alibi and, while Fanthorp had gone to fetch Dr Bessner in the belief that Simon could not walk, had
taken the gun, killed Linnet in her cabin, shot himself in the leg and thrown the gun overboard. But Louise had
seen him, so Jackie had taken a surgical knife from Dr Bessner’s cabin and killed her. Things went wrong again,
however, as Mrs Otterbourne had seen her on her way back, so Jackie had shot her with Pennington’s gun. Poirot
also found out that Tim had substituted the real pearls for a copy that Joanna had made, and Colonel Race found
that the political leader he was looking for was Richetti. When the steam ship arrived in Shellal, Jackie shot Simon
and then herself.

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