Death on the Nile

Cast of characters

Hercule Poirot. Also: Mrs. Allerton, Tim Allerton, Dr. Carl Bessner, Monsieur Gaston Blondin, Louise Bourget, Miss Bowers, Mr. Burnaby, Jacqueline (Jackie) De Bellefort, Linnet Ridgeway and Simon Doyle, James Fanthorp, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Fleetwood, Jules, Marie, Rosalie and Salome Otterbourne, Andrew Pennington, Colonel Johnny Race, Signor Guido Richetti, Cornelia Ruth Robson, Sterndale Rockford, The Honourable Joanna Southwood, Mrs. Marie Van Schuyler, Charles Windlesham

Publishing history

Publishing: First published in 1937 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London, and in 1938 by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. Stage: Adapted by the author for the stage in 1946 as 'Murder on the Nile', and opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on March 19, 1946. The play was renamed 'Hidden Horizon' and opened at the Plymouth Theatre in New York on September 19, 1946. Film: The film version, entitled 'Death on the Nile', was produced by EMI in 1978 and starred Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot. The all-star cast and attention to glamour in period and location made it a big-budget production. It was filmed for ITV's Poirot series in 2003 with David Suchet as Poirot.

Notes and reviews

One of Agatha Christie's favorites, she said it was one of "the best of [her] 'foreign travel' [novels]"

Murder methods:

Two Gunshots.
One Stabbing.