内容简介
Agatha Christie’s most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Yet in this exotic setting’ nothing is ever quite what it seems…
琳内特·里奇卫拥有一切——年轻、美貌、过人的头脑,而且还继承了巨额财产。但出乎所有人的意料,她闪电般地与自己的地产经纪人,也就是好友奎杰琳的男友多伊尔结了婚。婚后幸福的二人决定去埃及度蜜月。决意复仇的杰奎琳、偷偷在琳内特财产上做了手脚的律师,以及其他许多似乎是外人的游客,与他们登上了同一条船。
在尼罗河上,惨案发生了,一颗子弹贯穿了熟睡中的琳内特的头颅……
作者简介
Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of eighty novels and short-story collections over six decades.
阿加莎·克里斯蒂被誉为举世公认的侦探推理小说女王。她的著作英文版销售量逾10亿册,而且还被译成百余种文字,销售量亦逾10亿册。她一生创作了80部侦探小说和短篇故事集,19部剧本,以及6部以玛丽·维斯特麦考特的笔名出版的小说。著作数量之丰仅次于莎士比亚。
阿加莎·克里斯蒂的第一部小说《斯泰尔斯庄园奇案》写于第一次世界大战末,战时她担任志愿救护队员。在这部小说中她塑造了一个可爱的小个子比利时侦探赫尔克里·波格,成为继福尔摩斯之后侦探小说中最受读者欢迎的侦探形象。1926年,阿加莎·克里斯蒂写出了自己的成名作《罗杰疑案》(又译作《罗杰·艾克罗伊德谋杀案》)。1952年她最著名的剧本《捕鼠器》被搬上舞台,此后连续上演,时间之长久,创下了世界戏剧史上空前的纪录。
1971年,阿加莎·克里斯蒂得英国女王册封的女爵士封号。1975年,英格丽·褒曼凭借根据阿加莎同名小说《东方快车谋杀案》改编的影片获得了第三座奥斯卡奖杯。阿加莎数以亿计的仰慕者中不乏显赫的人物,其中包括女王伊丽莎白二世和法国总统戴高乐。
1976年,她以85岁高龄永别了热爱她的人们。
精彩书评
The construction is flawless.--Daily Mail
Must be read twice, once for enjoyment and once to see how the wheels go round.--The Times
The main alibi is of the first brilliance … the descriptive work hits, as it were, the Nile on the head.--Observer
A peach of a case for Poirot. I take my hat off to the author for as ingenious an alibi as can well be imagined.--Sunday Times
前言/序言
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