Agatha Christie Crime Collection: Death On The Nile / Towards Zero / After The Funeral by Agatha Christie.

 

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Death On The Nile / Towards Zero / After The Funeral 

by Agatha Christie. 

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Delightful collection, and looking forward to reading those I haven't yet read. 

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Death On The Nile 

One of the most famous from this writer, not the least due to the spectacular film - the story does lend itself to a spectacular film, rather. A beautiful young woman who is a rich heiress, with a brand new handsome bridegroom, setting out on her honeymoon - only, he had unceremoniously ditched his previous lover when he saw the beauty he married, and it so happened the two young women had been best friends, in fact that is how the couple had met. Now, the spurned lover is haunting them on the honeymoon, she is there everywhere they can and do go, no matter how carefully they camouflage their plans. Finally they are on a cruise on the Nile together, and she joins the cruise just as they are congratualting each other. Now there is no escape. And then begin the deaths...

October 27, 2008. 

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Towards Zero 

After well over four decades, having forgotten most of it including the name, one still vividly recalls the old woman brutally murdered, the door locked from within, the window on the river but high up, the impossibility of someone climbing in to bludgeon her because there was no space, the tennis player with a powerful back hand, or was it a lefty? 

December 28, 2020. 

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After The Funeral 

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December 28, 2020. 
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