The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot though the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything.. until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled and 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 was ever this toxic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed...