One night, after a particularly stifling day, tensions come to a head. This is the first attempt on her life (or is it just an accident?).
One day, on a sightseeing trip ashore, a boulder comes hurtling toward Linnet.
Linnet expresses growing unease, claiming to feel the hatred of all those around her. Luckily, the renowned detective, Hercule Poirot, is also on board. Allerton, whose son, Tim, is inexplicably wary of questions about his relationship with his cousin, Joanna the cunning and mysterious maid, Louise, newly in Linnet’s service Richetti, the archaeologist desperate to keep the contents of his telegrams private and the snobbish old Miss Van Schuyler, whose constant demands terrorize her sweet niece, Cornelia, who seems to have something to hide. Otterbourne, a novelist in decline, harboring an unnamed illness and her daughter Rosalie, who seems to suffer some inner torture. Ferguson, consumed by resentment toward the upper classes Linnet’s uncle, Andrew Pennington, who claims to have encountered her abroad by mere coincidence (but whose luggage tags suggest another story) Mrs.
Fanthorp, whose claims to be on holiday are unconvincing the radical Mr. Their fellow passengers bring their own share of mysteries and intrigue on board the Karnak with them: there’s the quiet Mr. Tensions heighten as Simon and Linnet embark on a Nile cruise. First, Jackie enacts a form of psychological revenge that leaves Linnet desperate and shaken: everywhere Linnet and Simon go on their honeymoon, they find Jackie there, too. But what seems like the beginning of a charmed life is actually the beginning of the end. Linnet is apparently one of the luckiest women on earth: she’s young, healthy, fabulously wealthy, enchantingly beautiful, breathtakingly glamorous, newly in love, and blissfully happy. Linnet and Simon depart for their honeymoon.
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