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Review: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Linnet Ridgeway has everything — beauty, intelligence, and a large estate and fortune. Her friend Jackie, however, has fallen on bad times, and in order to marry her fiancé, Simon, who is also poor, Jackie begs Linnet to give him a job on her estate. However, things don’t go all to plan when Simon ends up marrying Linnet instead of Jackie… The great detective Hercule Poirot is taking a rare holiday in Egypt, when his cruise down the Nile coincides with the route of a couple on their honeymoon; but when a jealous ex shows up, it soon becomes evident that all is not well with the group. What’s more,…
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Review: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
One summer, eight strangers receive a mysterious invitation to spend a holiday on Soldier Island. They have nothing in common with one another— except that each has a dark secret lurking in their past. When they arrive at the island, they find things are not as they expected; their mysterious host and hostess are absent, and nobody— not even the staff, limited to a butler and his wife— have ever set eyes on them. To add to the mystery, there are copies of an ominous children’s rhyme framed in every room. On the very first night of their stay, things begin to go awry; dark secrets begin to surface, matters…