书名：Death on the Nile 尼罗河上的惨案
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数660
作者：Agatha Christie阿加莎·克里斯蒂
出版社名称：Harper
出版时间：2001
语种：英文
ISBN：9780007119325
商品尺寸：11.1 x 2.5x 17.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：416

Death on the Nile《尼罗河上的惨案》是侦探小说女王阿加莎·克里斯蒂的经典代表作之一。故事讲述了行进在尼罗河上的一起游艇上发生的三起杀人事件及大侦探赫尔克里·波洛（Hercule Poirot）对事件的调查，终于波洛将游客召集起来，揭示了三起案件的真相。由该书改编而成的同名电影也是经典的译制片之一，曾获奥斯卡和金球奖提名。
推荐理由：
1.阿加莎名作，英国《泰晤士报》评价称：这本书必须读两次，一次欣赏故事文笔，一次研究情节设置；
2.英文原版，语言简练，情节生动，阅读难度不大，中学水平即可读懂；
3.书本轻巧便携，纸质护眼，阅读舒适。
Agatha Christie’s most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything — until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls 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 in this exotic setting’ nothing is ever quite what it seems!
Critical Praise
“The construction is flawless.” —Daily Mail
“Must be read twice, once for enjoyment and once to see how the wheels go round.” —The Times
“The main alibi is of the first brilliance… the descriptive work hits, as it were, the Nile on the head.” —The Observer
“A peach of a case for Poirot. I take my hat off to the author for as ingenious an alibi as can well be imagined.” —Sunday Times

林内特·里奇维被一颗子弹打穿了头颅，尼罗河之旅的宁静也因此被打破。这位年轻，美丽，时尚——拥有一切的女孩，失去了自己的生命。
赫尔克里·波洛的耳边回响着早先一位旅伴的话语：“我真想用我那把亲爱的小手枪顶着她的头，扣动扳机。”然而在这异国他乡的场景中，一切并不像表面显示的那样平静……
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who hadeverything...until she lost her life.
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 in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed...

Agatha Christie阿加莎·克里斯蒂，英国侦探小说家、剧作家，三大推理文学宗师之一，被誉为“推理女王”。她笔下的Hercule Poirot（赫尔克里·波洛）是继福尔摩斯之后深受读者欢迎的大侦探。她一生创作了80部侦探小说和短篇故事集，19部剧本，以及6部以玛丽·维斯特麦考特为笔名出版的小说，销量突破20亿册，只有《圣经》与莎士比亚的著作在她之上。
Agatha Christiewas an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She was born in Torquay in 1890 and became the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel,The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, the most popular detective since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime and her works have sold over two billion copies—80 crime books, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.

CHAPTER 1
“Linnet Ridgeway!”
“That’s Her!” saidMrBurnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns.
He nudged his companion.
The two men stared with round bucolic eyes and slightly open mouths.
A big scarlet Rolls-Royce had just stopped in front of the local post office.
A girl jumped out, a girl without a hat and wearing a frock that looked (but only looked) simple. A girl with golden hair and straight autocratic features--a girl with a lovely shape--a girl such as was seldom seen in Malton-under-Wode.
With a quick imperative step she passed into the post office.
“That’s her!’! saidMrBurnabyagain. And he went on in a low awed voice.
“Millions she’s got.... Going to spend thousands on the place. Swimming pools there’s going to be, and Italian gardens and a ballroom and a half of the house pulled down and rebuilt…”
“She’ll bring money into the town,” said his friend. He was a lean seedy-looking man. His tone was envious and grudging.
MrBurnabyagreed.
“Yes, it’s a great thing for Malton-under-Wode. A great thing it is.”
MrBurnabywas complacent about it.
“Wake us all up proper,” he added.
“Bit of a difference fromSirGeorge,” said the other.
“Ah, it was the’orses did for him,” saidMrBurnabyindulgently. “Never ’ad no luck.”
“What did he get for the place?” “A cool sixty thousand, so I’ve heard.” The lean man whistled.
MrBurnabywent on triumphantly: “And they say she’ll have spent another sixty thousand before she’s finished!”
“Wicked!” said the lean man. “Where’d she get all that money from?”
“America, so I’ve heard. Her mother was the only daughter of one of those millionaire blokes. Quite like the pictures, isn’t it?” The girl came out of the post office and climbed into the car.