Death On The Nile

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

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Author’s Foreword

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Author’s ForewordChapter Summaries & Analyses

Author’s Foreword

Christie explains that she wrote the novel after coming back from a holiday in Egypt, and that for her the characters are vivid and real, especially the central characters of Linnet, Simon, and Jackie. Christie describes Death on the Nile as the best of her mysteries set in foreign lands.