Agatha Christie.s most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything . until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls 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 is ever quite what it seems.