Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile, the director’s second Hercule Poirot story to get a film adaptation, after the 2017 remake of Murder on the Orient Express, is not Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18) Published March 30th 2007 by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. Hardcover, 351 pages. more details. Want to Read. Rate this book. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Death on the Nile is a 1937 mystery novel by Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot is on holiday in Egypt, on a Nile River cruise. Among the other passengers is Linnet Ridgeway, a rich, beautiful heiress, honeymooning with her husband Simon Doyle. Doyle was engaged to Linnet’s best friend, Jacqueline de Bellefort, before he met Linnet, and broke it David Tresilian, Saturday 19 Feb 2022. British actor and director Kenneth Branagh’s new film version of crime novelist Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile will likely disappoint fans worldwide. Ultimately, detective fiction is a genre built around carefully orchestrated surprises, and in Death on the Nile, Christie subverts some expectations while fulfilling others in order to keep her audience guessing about what the final outcome will be, while still delivering the thrills of a traditional mystery story. Read 4,265 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Soon to be a major motion picture sequel to Murder on the Orient Express with a screenpl… .

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