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Demise on the Nile (published inside 1937) is an Agatha Christie mystery novel featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. A action requires place within Egypt, mostly on the Nile River.
Plot
a beautiful, loaded Linnet Doyle is one of a traveler in a sail down the Nile, using her freshly hubby – the human her right friend, Jackie, was another time engaged to. Jackie is as well aboard a steamer. Poirot, the detective, senses condition from either day 1, then these are there are no surprise whenever, prior to as well hanker, a manslayer strikes.
Quote
Poirot (to Colonel Race): "We know almost all there is to know. Except that what we know seems incredible. Impossible."
Film versions
Within 1978 it was made into the successful movie star Peter Ustinov as Poirot, alongside David Niven, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, Mia Farrow, Olivia Hussey, Simon MacCorkindale, Lois Chiles and Angela Lansbury.
Inside 2004, ITV made a UK TV movie starring David Suchet as Poirot alongside James Fox and David Soul.
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