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 had everything ? 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 ?