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DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Duke University Libraries https://archive.org/details/deathonnile01chri Death on the Nile By Agatha Christie AUTHOR OF “THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD,” “POIROT LOSES A CLIENT,” ETC. It was very peaceful on the river. The smooth, slippery black rocks of the Nile lay half out of the water like vast, prehistoric monsters as the luxury river steamer Karnak pushed silently upstream. Inside the spacious lounge Tim Allerton and iis mother were playing bridge with the Otterbournes. Colonel Race had just ordered his third whiskey, Mr. Fanthorp was dozing, and Linnet Doyle was very much in love with her Drand new husband. Hercule Poirot was worried. He had a /ague, uneasy feeling that this boat was taking them all on a dangerous journey, a journey heading perhaps for unknown zurrents of disaster. “Tiens he thought, “I am without doubt magining,” but Poirot knew, in spite of himself, that his pre- nonitions were almost never false. It was not until the stillness )f the Egyptian night had lulled even Poirot himself to a sense >f security that a sharp report from a revolver, the sound of unning feet along the promenade deck and a muffled splash iroved his first instinct correct. In this absorbing mystery novel the author has departed so ar from the usual and created such a fascinating background nd such an arresting solution that the effect will startle the nost blase reader. This is the one combination that is impos- ible to top—Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot at their best! ON DEATH THE NILE GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers New York Copyright, 1937, By AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN — All rights reserved no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY QUINN & BODEN COMPANY, INC., RAHWAY, N. J. QXS 2 CONTENTS D< PART I ENGLAND I PART II EGYPT 37
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