![]() ![]() ![]() Thankfully wisdom comes with age, or is it with adaptations? My very first introduction to Agatha Christie adaptations, was Death on the Nile. Too scared to try to read them, Agatha Christie remained a name on a well-known bookshelf until I was practically an adult. I remember how frightful some of those paperback covers were (why on earth did they ever do that? Did people honestly appealed to those?). Some of my fondest childhood memories, is visiting my Granny and my aunt over Summer Holidays and to this day can recall exactly where their vast Agatha Christie Collection was on the shelf. He 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.’ Despite the exotic setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems… Who's also on board? Christie's great detective Hercule Poirot. ![]() She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life. The tranquility of a lovely cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. Agatha Christie's most daring travel mystery. ![]()
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