Simon and Linnet were going on their honeymoon cruise on the Nile on the boat, The Karnak. Jacqueline de Bellefort had been stalking them through Europe, and now she too was on the Karnak. She followed them and made comments about them which was really terribly upsetting for the young married couple. Also on the Karnak was Hercule Poirot. Linnet came to Poirot and asked if she could hire him to make Jacqueline stop her stalking. Poirot replied that there was nothing legally that he could do. He did, however, talk to Jacqueline about what she was doing and warned her about the evil that might result from her activities.
Anyone who has been on a tour with strangers knows that the beginning of the tour involves chatting and finding out about the other travelers. Poirot was no different and he found out about the rather large group who would become involved in the mysteries that would follow. His old friend Colonel Race boarded the boat and told Poirot that he was on the hunt for a very dangerous spy.
Then there occurred three murders. In addition to this, there was a robbery of a very valuable pearl necklace owned by Linnet. All of this presented quite a puzzle for Poirot who in his usual way would find the solution.
This book was published in 1937. It was turmed into a movie with a star studded cast in 1978. Death on the Nile was also in season 9 of the David Suchet Poirot series. I did watch this and found that it stayed faithful to the book with only a few changes. The scenery was very nice. I see that Kenneth Branagh is doing another movie version which will be released in 2019. I do hope he gets rid of that dreadful mustache.
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