sleeping murders by agatha christie summary

Just in the nick of time, Hercule Poirot finds the murderers as the ship returns to port and justice triumphs. During the investigation, two more people are shot and killed, including Linnet's maid and one of the other passengers, Mrs. Hrecule Poirot takes on the case with his friend and fellow investigator who has come aboard the ship, Colonel Race. On the same night, Linnet Doyle is shot in the head while she's sleeping. While on board, Jackie shoots Simon Doyle in the leg one night in the saloon.

Coincidentally, Hercule Poirot is vacationing in Egypt and boards the same ship to sail up the Nile that the Doyles and Jackie de Bellefort take. In revenge for stealing her man, Jackie starts showing up at all the locations where the newlyweds are present and harasses them.

Linnet Ridgeway not only steals Simon Doyle away from her friend Jackie, but she marries Simon and they head off on their honeymoon to Egypt. It all starts when Linnet Ridgeway, one of the richest young ladies in London, steals the fiancé of her best friend, Jacqueline de Bellefort. It was then adapted again in 2006, this time by ITV, for their series Marple which starred Geraldine McEwan. Sleeping Murder was first adapted for television in 1987 as part of the Miss Marple series by the BBC, starring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. While he is on vacation and sailing on a river boat up the Nile, he finds himself in the middle of not one, but actually two murder mysteries. But in Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks, John Curran argues that it was written much later. Hercule Poirot is a French private investigator that is famous for solving some of the world's most perplexing mysteries.

The story follows the main character, Hercule Poirot, where he embarks on a vacation in Egypt, but finds himself solving two murder cases. 2001 saw the first radio adaptation which was transmitted on BBC Radio 4 and starred June Whitfield.Death on the Nile is a Hercule Poirot mystery novel by the best-selling author Agatha Christie. In An Autobiography Christie explains that she ‘had written an extra two books during the first years of the war’ and ‘those two books, when written, were put in the vaults of a bank.’ But in Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks, John Curran argues that it was written much later.

There is much discussion around when the story was first written. Originally it has been thought that the story was written in the early 1940s, although this has been debated by Christie expert John Curran in his book Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebook in which he discovers that Christie began writing the novel much later. A puzzle that is tortuous, surprising and finally satisfying.

Sleeping murders by agatha christie summary