The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that stylish, beautiful young Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. Hercule Poirot recalled 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 under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what it seems; the Belgian sleuth will have plenty of suspects to sort out and not enough time to do it. Agatha Christie's 1937 classic has been filmed many times for television and the silver screen, and the cover of this edition ties in to the 2022 Kenneth Branagh adaptation.