![]() In Christie’s world, it turns out that very few people embark on Nile cruises without something to conceal.Ĭhristie’s gruesome masterpiece (with an unfortunately racist series of original titles) is the world’s bestselling mystery for a reason. What’s amazing about the final twist isn’t solely the whodunnit, but the fact that Hercule Poirot manages to uncover something secret or sinister about every single one of his fellow passengers. We’ve put extra spoiler alerts in front of the summaries that really ruin the experience of reading, but proceed with caution.Ī love triangle, a crazed stalking, a dead heiress, and a packed-to-the-hilt Egyptian cruise make this one of Christie’s most delightfully atmospheric and incredibly tense novels. Warning: There are major spoilers throughout. To celebrate her enduring legacy, we offer her most diabolical plot twists, her cleverest endings, and her craziest killers. Her characters stab, shoot, and poison with alarming frequency and impunity, and she effectively engineers a sense of mortal dread in close quarters. ![]() Queen of Crime Agatha Christie was born on this day in 1890, and fans are celebrating the doyenne of the “cozy mystery.” Though her many novels often take place in country houses, small villages, or among groups of travelers, they’re really anything but cozy. ![]()
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