Death on the Nile书评Death on the Nile describes a story that Linnet Ridgeway, a young, rich, newly married lady, is murdered on her honeymoon journey. And the Belgian famous detective Hercule Poirot takes up the case and makes investigation with Colonel Race, one of his friends.The story begins that Jacqueline de Bellefort, is taking her fiancé, Simon Doyle, a poor man, to meet her best friend, the very rich, and very beautiful Linnet Ridgeway. When Linnet meets her friend's husband-to-be, she falls in love with him at first sight. Linnet is a girl who has got everything but seems lack of true love. Time passes and it is months later, Linnet and her new husband Simon are on honeymoon traveling on Nile. But Jacqueline De Bellefort follows them aboard with a gun,she appears without any warning wherever the newly couple visit. Jacqueline seems determined to have her revenge on them both. Can Poirot persuade her to abandon a course of action that promises disaster to everyone? Obviously, the answer is no, because Linnet is shot in the head and dies in a night on the steamer. Then, Jacqueline is immediately suspected, but later proved to have been away from where the incident takes place. Who is the murder? Everybody on the steamer is under suspicion. The only person who is out of suspicion is Simon Doyle, who has been laid up during the time of the murder because he is shot by Jacqueline. How it has happened? With the development of investigating, it finally turns out that Linnet's dear husband Simon is the murder and her once best friend Jacqueline is his alibi. So astonishing! They two have made the conspiracy.All along, Simon married Linnet to gain her money, not because he loves her.Jacqueline planned Linnet's murder as she knew if Simon did it by himself, he would be caught, so she came in to protect him and helped him in the dark. It seems that they will only be united in court, but Poirot allows them to escape justice when Jacqueline shot first Simon and then herself with a second pistol. The two killers are dead at last.Actually, at first, I'm not so interested in this story, I read it just for fun and for killing time. But unexpectedly, I'm addicted in it gradually and I think it is a really good book. It is worth reading. It is a murder mystery with all the ingredients of a thriller.The novel is set on a luxury steamer and most of the action of the novel happens on this steamer. The plot of the novel is simple. The writer Agatha Christie succeeded in creating an atmosphere which caught my great attention on the novel. I think that to be more interesting than the unraveling of the mystery killer is the way in which the writer describes the process of interrogation. In fact, the detective's interrogation to the suspect keeps me hooked till the very end of the novel.I really appreciate the detective Poirot. I like the way he deals with the criminal case. He does not search for fingerprints on the door knobs, he does not search for bloody knives and neither does he judge people by their appearance. All he does is to sit back in his chair, listens to lies and truth and uses his grey cells. As he says "Murder is just a puzzle. Put together all the parts and there you get the answer."He is really smart and wisdom. I have guessed that Simon Doyle is the cruel killer, but I just depend on my intuition, not by using my wisdom. I enjoyed the process of the murder's surfacing from the water.I think it is not only a mystery or detective novel; it is also a love story and a note of psychology. In fact, this is essentially a love story between three characters, Jacqueline, Linnet, and Simon. Of all the characters, these three come across as the most real and believable, and it is this thread that Christie triumphs with above all the others, even the murder. Jackie in particular is well drawn, clever, courageous and strong. She is carved from the stone by the lightning and thunder. She should be Spanish. She is lashed by her passion and love for Simon Doyle to the abyss of crime as willingly and feverishly as the moth flies to the fire. Once she said to Poirot "one must follow his star, even it leads him to the hell". Her power is not in her hands but in her will. She is so determined that she is fatal. Although she kills herself finally for Simon Doyle, a man who never deserves her love, I don't think that her life is a tragedy. Everyone has a star to follow. She follows hers. The end of story is so expected by her. No court except the death has the power to accuse love though it results in wrong deed.Obviously, Simon is Jacqueline's star, Simon is also her whole world. She loves him with all her heart and soul. Even she is willing to give her life for him. As the writer wrote, "she herself had not coveted Linnet Ridgeway's money, but she had loved Simon Doyle, had loved him beyond reason, beyond rectitude and beyond pity." Her attitude towards life touched me deeply, but I won't follow her steps anyhow. For me, love doesn't meaneverything and it is so stupid to be crazy for a man. I don't think Simon is the man who is worth to be loved deeply by Jacqueline. He is just a foolish, selfish, cruel and cold-blooded man, he just wants money dreadfully. I really can't understand why Linnet and Jacqueline both love this terrible man, especially Linnet. Mercy on her, she even doesn't know how she dies and who kills her. I don't think that she can believe that one day her husband will kill her without a moment of hesitation. I don't think she can believe that her beloved husband marries her just for her money till the moment when she dies. Poor Linnet, she never has the chance to know her once best friend Jacqueline is also the accomplice. Although she betrays Jacqueline and takes her once fiancé Simon away from her, she is always feeling sincere sorry for her. I really agree that love can be a very frightening thing.Jacqueline loves Simon deadly; she has been forced to commit the second and the third murders in an attempt to cover Simon's crime. In my opinion, in a degree, Simon is a pretty happy man because he gains two excellent women's love. I feel so regretful that the once intimacy sisters Jacqueline and Linnet become enemies because of love. I think there are other ways to solve their contradiction instead of murdering. Love and friendship, I prefer friendship!•尽管阿加莎·克里斯蒂的大多数作品——尤其是长篇小说多已被改变成了影视剧，对中国观众来说，最为熟悉的应该还是改革开放后不久引进的英国影片《尼罗河上的惨案》和《阳光下的罪恶》。
