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Agatha Christie Crime Collection: Death On The Nile / Towards Zero / After The Funeral
Death On The Nile (Hercule Poirot, Bk 17) — Linnett Ridgeway has almost everything: youth, beauty, brains, and money. Then her best friend Jackie brings her handsome fianc?, Simon Doyle, to visit and asks Linnett to give him a job. Now Linnett and Simon are on their honeymoon, a cruise up the Nile. When Linnett is killed, Jackie is the obvious suspect, but she couldn't have done it. It seems like an insolvable crime, until the famous detective Hercule Poirot starts to investigate.
Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, Bk 5)
A crime expert plays with the rules of murder mystery, only to write himself out of the story. Mr. Treves, a famous criminologist, loves murder mysteries -- except for the fact that they all begin with murder. But his desire to move the fatal moment to the end just might be the death of him.
After The Funeral (Hercule Poirot, Bk 30) (aka: Funerals Are Fatal)
When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say: "It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't it? But he was murdered, wasn't he?" In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.
Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, Bk 5)
A crime expert plays with the rules of murder mystery, only to write himself out of the story. Mr. Treves, a famous criminologist, loves murder mysteries -- except for the fact that they all begin with murder. But his desire to move the fatal moment to the end just might be the death of him.
After The Funeral (Hercule Poirot, Bk 30) (aka: Funerals Are Fatal)
When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say: "It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't it? But he was murdered, wasn't he?" In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.
543 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1987
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Agatha Christie
5,810 books75.2k followersAgatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
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December 27, 2021
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Death on the Nile : 9/10 : read 2011, 2014
Towards Zero : 8/10 : read 2011
After the Funeral : 8/10: read 2011, 2014
Death on the Nile : 9/10 : read 2011, 2014
Towards Zero : 8/10 : read 2011
After the Funeral : 8/10: read 2011, 2014
December 28, 2020
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Death On The Nile / Towards Zero / After The Funeral
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Delightful collection, and looking forward to reading those I haven't yet read.
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Death On The Nile
One of the most famous from this writer, not the least due to the spectacular film - the story does lend itself to a spectacular film, rather. A beautiful young woman who is a rich heiress, with a brand new handsome bridegroom, setting out on her honeymoon - only, he had unceremoniously ditched his previous lover when he saw the beauty he married, and it so happened the two young women had been best friends, in fact that is how the couple had met. Now, the spurned lover is haunting them on the honeymoon, she is there everywhere they can and do go, no matter how carefully they camouflage their plans. Finally they are on a cruise on the Nile together, and she joins the cruise just as they are congratualting each other. Now there is no escape. And then begin the deaths...
October 27, 2008.
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Towards Zero
After well over four decades, having forgotten most of it including the name, one still vividly recalls the old woman brutally murdered, the door locked from within, the window on the river but high up, the impossibility of someone climbing in to bludgeon her because there was no space, the tennis player with a powerful back hand, or was it a lefty?
December 28, 2020.
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After The Funeral
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October 18, 2020
Nice demonstration of a writer's prose improving in later books. Ialso appreciate that there are fewer unnecessary characters; the character introductions in Death on the Nile was one of the more tedious things I've read lately.
June 27, 2024
Read: Death on the Nile
Another brisk, punchy read from the queen of the whodunnit. Every clue and misdirect is presented with such impeccable timing that you’ll begin drawing conclusions at the precise moment Christie wishes you to. Not every revelation is entirely satisfying, but the tale is crafted with an effortless precision that you can’t help but marvel at.
Another brisk, punchy read from the queen of the whodunnit. Every clue and misdirect is presented with such impeccable timing that you’ll begin drawing conclusions at the precise moment Christie wishes you to. Not every revelation is entirely satisfying, but the tale is crafted with an effortless precision that you can’t help but marvel at.
October 16, 2016
Death on the Nile
Linnet Ridgeway was one of those women who have, or seem to have, everything. Looks, and a figure envied by friends of her own sex; charm in plenty; and money. Almost beyond other things she was fortunate in her wealth; wealth that could buy anything, any service which her fancy demanded. Only one thing seemed missing. She had never enjoyed, or suffered, the kind of emotional experience which she envied in her friends and which alone would make marriage a vital need. Then, quite suddenly and to the astonishment of all her acquaintances she married “a nobody” without money or prospects; but a nobody who, until swept up by Linnet, was the adored betrothed of a close friend.
The strangely assorted pair, honeymooning in Egypt, become the focus of a series of events whose violence is matched by their perplexing nature, which even the astute Hercule Poirot discovers to be a formidable challenge.
Towards Zero
It was February 14th and the figure, alone in the room, was busily writing with a cool, controlled intelligence.
Had there been anyone else to read they would have been startled; because what was being written was a clear and carefully detailed project for murder.
The mind of the writer, of the murderer to be, had only one thought and one purpose – the destruction of another human being; and the thing had got to be perfect. There was to be no possible disarrangement of strategy. The victim had long been selected. Now the place and the method were determined in detail, and only one thing remained to be done: the writer selected a date in September and smiled…
Once again Christie's stories are tops. Both Death on the Nile and Towards Zero are so complicated, suspenseful and interesting that they hold the reader's attention until the end. Because I'd already seen a film version of Death there weren't that many surprises but Towards Zero was really brilliant and chilling. Her reputation is well-founded. This is definitely the collection I remember reading 10 years ago (!) but it seems as if I didn't read After the Funeral, which is a bit strange.
Linnet Ridgeway was one of those women who have, or seem to have, everything. Looks, and a figure envied by friends of her own sex; charm in plenty; and money. Almost beyond other things she was fortunate in her wealth; wealth that could buy anything, any service which her fancy demanded. Only one thing seemed missing. She had never enjoyed, or suffered, the kind of emotional experience which she envied in her friends and which alone would make marriage a vital need. Then, quite suddenly and to the astonishment of all her acquaintances she married “a nobody” without money or prospects; but a nobody who, until swept up by Linnet, was the adored betrothed of a close friend.
The strangely assorted pair, honeymooning in Egypt, become the focus of a series of events whose violence is matched by their perplexing nature, which even the astute Hercule Poirot discovers to be a formidable challenge.
Towards Zero
It was February 14th and the figure, alone in the room, was busily writing with a cool, controlled intelligence.
Had there been anyone else to read they would have been startled; because what was being written was a clear and carefully detailed project for murder.
The mind of the writer, of the murderer to be, had only one thought and one purpose – the destruction of another human being; and the thing had got to be perfect. There was to be no possible disarrangement of strategy. The victim had long been selected. Now the place and the method were determined in detail, and only one thing remained to be done: the writer selected a date in September and smiled…
Once again Christie's stories are tops. Both Death on the Nile and Towards Zero are so complicated, suspenseful and interesting that they hold the reader's attention until the end. Because I'd already seen a film version of Death there weren't that many surprises but Towards Zero was really brilliant and chilling. Her reputation is well-founded. This is definitely the collection I remember reading 10 years ago (!) but it seems as if I didn't read After the Funeral, which is a bit strange.
July 3, 2015
Agatha Christie again (y)
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