And Then There Were 45: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This novel officially marks our progress through one third of Christie's canon! And it is of course much beloved among Christie fans... due in no small part to the outrageously enjoyable 1978 film adaptation (we're looking at you, Bette Davis; we are always looking at you). But there is much to discuss, not only about this adaptation and Suchet's spin on the material, but the workings of the story itself. Join us as we tease apart what we believe to be one of Christie's most complex puzzle mysteries. And as we all know by now, that is most certainly saying something!

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:11.4	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Day Maggis of Christie.
0:17.0	I'm Catherine Brubek and I'm Camper Donovan.
0:20.0	And this week we are doing a novel, Death of the Nile.
0:23.8	Woo-hoo!
0:24.8	This is a big one.
0:25.8	Let's just jump right in.
0:26.8	Very quickly, publication on this one, November 1st, 1937 in the UK. That's the first publication date.
0:35.0	We are basically at the place in history that Italy signs on with Germany and Japan.
0:42.0	They signed on two days after the book was published.
0:46.6	We are hurtling into World War II and we will get there within the Christieverse as well, right?
0:51.6	Right, absolutely. And we will be discussing that a lot more in
0:55.1	future novels, but for now let's focus on this novel and talk about our
1:00.9	victim, Mrs. Lynette Doyle,
1:04.5	Nay Ridgeway when we first meet her,
1:06.3	her name is still Lynette Ridgeway.
1:09.0	And she is a wealthy young woman, an heiress who has it all. She really just has it all.
1:15.6	I can do it! I can have it all and a lot of people seem to dislike her for that but then also to dislike her for that, but then also to dislike her for some rather valid reasons.
1:26.7	But she's beautiful, she's smart, she's rich, she's shot dead in her cabin aboard the
1:31.6	SS Carnac on the River Nile with a rather small
1:34.8	somewhat scorched bullet hole in her head. We will have other victims, we will get to
1:40.3	them as we talk about what happens in this story so let's turn to our cast of
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