Jacqueline De Bellefort introduces her fiance Simon Doyle to her friend, a wealthy heiress Linnet Ridgeway.
A few months later Simon and Linnet are married and honeymooning in Egypt. Jacqueline stalks them, threatens them and Linnet ends up dead just after Jacqueline is seen shooting Simon on his leg.
Poirot also happens to be on vacation. Although Jacqueline is the main suspect there are others in the trip that might have had a motive to kill Linnet, especially people who lost a fortune after the stock market crash.
I have said in the past that the later Poirot's had decline in quality of the art production, it is very good here but the humour is still lacking. The biggest issue was that too many clues were laid which got my little grey cells ticking so I managed to work out parts of the plot before Poirot.
It is an enjoyable enough mystery, it moves along at a fast pace but the characters did appear to be rather one dimensional.
A few months later Simon and Linnet are married and honeymooning in Egypt. Jacqueline stalks them, threatens them and Linnet ends up dead just after Jacqueline is seen shooting Simon on his leg.
Poirot also happens to be on vacation. Although Jacqueline is the main suspect there are others in the trip that might have had a motive to kill Linnet, especially people who lost a fortune after the stock market crash.
I have said in the past that the later Poirot's had decline in quality of the art production, it is very good here but the humour is still lacking. The biggest issue was that too many clues were laid which got my little grey cells ticking so I managed to work out parts of the plot before Poirot.
It is an enjoyable enough mystery, it moves along at a fast pace but the characters did appear to be rather one dimensional.