Hardcover | FICTION/Mystery & Detective / Traditional | In one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries, beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in which murder most foul occurs. The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. Young, stylish, and beautiful, Linnet was a girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life. In pondering the case, Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet in this sultry setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems.