Heiress Linnet Ridgeway marries Simon Doyle, the former fiancé of her friend Jacqueline de Bellefort, and the newlyweds find Jacqueline pursuing them on their Egyptian honeymoon aboard a Nile steamer; when Linnet is shot dead in her cabin, Hercule Poirot investigates the passengers to find the killer.
Books mentioned in Death on the Nile (2)
Erewhon by Samuel Butler: “There was a sprinkling of communistic literature, a good many snapshots, Samuel Butler's Erewhon and a cheap edition of Pepys' Diary.”
Diary by Samuel Pepys: “There was a sprinkling of communistic literature, a good many snapshots, Samuel Butler's Erewhon and a cheap edition of Pepys' Diary.”