{"id":2343,"date":"2026-01-03T22:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/death-on-the-nile-christie-agatha\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:24:18","slug":"death-on-the-nile-christie-agatha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/death-on-the-nile-christie-agatha\/","title":{"rendered":"Death on the Nile &#8211; Christie, Agatha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='book-preview'>\n<h3>Book Preview<\/h3>\n<div class=\"frontMatterPage\" id=\"frontmatterpage01\">\n<div class=\"chapterHead\">\n<h2 class=\"chapterTitle\" style=\"text-indent: 0%;\"> <span class=\"xrefInternal\"><span class=\"bold\">Author\u2019s Foreword<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chapterBody\">\n<p class=\"chapterOpenerText\" style=\"text-indent: 5%;\"><span class=\"italic\">Death on the Nile<\/span> was written after coming back from a winter in Egypt. When I read it now I feel myself back again on the steamer from Assuan to Wadi Halfa. There were quite a number of passengers on board, but the ones in this book travelled in my mind and became increasingly real to me\u2014in the setting of a Nile steamer. The book has a lot of characters and a very elaborately worked out plot. I think the central situation is intriguing and has dramatic possibilities, and the three characters, Simon, Linnet, and Jacqueline, seem to me to be real and alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\" style=\"text-indent: 5%;\">My friend, Francis L. Sullivan, liked the book so much that he kept urging me to adapt it for the stage, which in the end I did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\" style=\"text-indent: 5%;\">I think, myself, that the book is one of the best of my \u201cforeign travel\u201d ones, and if detective stories are \u201cescape literature\u201d (and why shouldn\u2019t they be!) the reader can escape to sunny skies and blue water as well as to crime in the confines of an armchair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"centerImage\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" class=\"epubimage\" src=\"Images\/vii.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chapterBody\">\n<p class=\"chapterOpenerText\" style=\"text-indent: 5%;\"><span class=\"italic\">Death on the Nile<\/span> was written after coming back from a winter in Egypt. When I read it now I feel myself back again on the steamer from Assuan to Wadi Halfa. There were quite a number of passengers on board, but the ones in this book travelled in my mind and became increasingly real to me\u2014in the setting of a Nile steamer. The book has a lot of characters and a very elaborately worked out plot. I think the central situation is intriguing and has dramatic possibilities, and the three characters, Simon, Linnet, and Jacqueline, seem to me to be real and alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\" style=\"text-indent: 5%;\">My friend, Francis L. Sullivan, liked the book so much that he kept urging me to adapt it for the stage, which in the end I did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\" style=\"text-indent: 5%;\">I think, myself, that the book is one of the best of my \u201cforeign travel\u201d ones, and if detective stories are \u201cescape literature\u201d (and why shouldn\u2019t they be!) the reader can escape to sunny skies and blue water as well as to crime in the confines of an armchair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"centerImage\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" class=\"epubimage\" src=\"Images\/vii.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style='margin: 30px 0; border-top: 1px solid #eee;'>\n<p style='text-align:center;'>Read the full book by downloading it below.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/download-is-starting\/?url=https%3A\/\/mega.co.nz\/%23%214gYzEZRK%21GOLq4MkX5Rcwx6Nymau2Hz06qDPpygG8XbeZuznDzQ0' class='download-btn' target='_blank'>DOWNLOAD EPUB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Preview Author\u2019s Foreword Death on the Nile was written after coming back from a winter in Egypt. When I read it now I feel myself back again on the steamer from Assuan to Wadi Halfa. 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