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Death on the Nile (English and Chinese Edition)

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's most daring travel mystery.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 outb...

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Rian Johnson recalled watching the film adaptation of the title as a child and said it gave him a sense of grown‑up entertainment. He noted that the whodunit style of the movie influenced his own work, mentioning it alongside other classic Poirot films. The book was therefore referenced as a nostalgic inspiration rather than a direct recommendation.

Episode: "Rian Johnson"

Knives Out was inspired by the whodunit style and setting of Agatha Christie films like Death on the Nile, but with a modern American setting.

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And I remember, I have great memories of like watching those movies with my family and feeling like I was watching something very grown up. And I love those films and I love the genre.

Episode: "Rian Johnson"

Rian Johnson mentioned that he grew up loving Agatha Christie's books and specifically mentioned watching the Peter Ustinov Poirot movies, including 'Death on the Nile'.

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And that was the ones with Peter Ustinov as Poirot. So it was like Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun.

Stuff You Should Know

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Stuff You Should Know

This book was written during Agatha Christie's period of archeological digs and travels in the Middle East, which contributed to her international stardom.

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Books like Murder in Mesopotamia and Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express were all written during this period.

— Episode: Agatha Christie: Queen of the Murder Mys...

Episode: Agatha Christie: Queen of the Murder Mystery

This book was written during Agatha Christie's period of archeological digs and travels in the Middle East, which contributed to her international stardom.

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Books like Murder in Mesopotamia and Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express were all written during this period.

Episode: Agatha Christie: Queen of the Murder Mystery

It was mentioned as one of Agatha Christie's famous books, set in a more exotic locale, which helped catapult her into international stardom.

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And then somewhere else I saw 103. So let's go with that. So let's talk about this Cozy Mystery or just mystery novels in general.

Um, that really catapulted her into superstardom, international superstardom too. Yeah.

Books like Murder in Mesopotamia and Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express were all written during this period.

Episode: Agatha Christie: Queen of the Murder Mystery

This book, set in Egypt, was mentioned as a novel that helped propel Agatha Christie to international fame.

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Murder in Mesopotamia and Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express were all written during this period.

Episode: Agatha Christie: Queen of the Murder Mystery

Josh Clark mentioned that this book, along with others like Murder in Mesopotamia and Murder on the Orient Express, were written during Agatha Christie's period of international superstardom during the 1930s.

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Books like Murder in Mesopotamia and Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express were all written during this period.

And this is what really catapulted her into international superstardom as an author.

The Rest Is History

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The Rest Is History

They said they had read it as one of Christie's greatest works, initially calling it Murder on the Nile before correcting the title.

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So here is my, here's my theory on this. So in preparation for this, I read two of her greatest works, Murder on the Nile. Death on the Nile, Tom. Sorry, Death on the Nile.

— Episode: 185. Agatha Christie

Episode: 185. Agatha Christie

They said they had read it as one of Christie's greatest works, initially calling it Murder on the Nile before correcting the title.

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So here is my, here's my theory on this. So in preparation for this, I read two of her greatest works, Murder on the Nile. Death on the Nile, Tom. Sorry, Death on the Nile.

NPR News Now

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NPR News Now

It was mentioned that Olivia Hussey appeared in the 1978 film version of Agatha Christie's novel Death on the Nile.

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She went on to appear in the 1977 series Jesus of Nazareth, the 1978 version of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, and many other movies and TV shows.

— Episode: NPR News: 12-28-2024 5PM EST

Episode: NPR News: 12-28-2024 5PM EST

It was mentioned that Olivia Hussey appeared in the 1978 film version of Agatha Christie's novel Death on the Nile.

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She went on to appear in the 1977 series Jesus of Nazareth, the 1978 version of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, and many other movies and TV shows.

Not Another D&D Podcast

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Not Another D&D Podcast

The movie was described as being popular on planes lately. Onyx was watching it intently, but was likely using someone else's seat to do so.

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I mean, probably Death on the Nile. People are watching that on planes all the time lately.

— Episode: Trinyvale X Bahumia Mini-Arc - Ep.01: Th...

Episode: Trinyvale X Bahumia Mini-Arc - Ep.01: The Triplets...

The movie was described as being popular on planes lately. Onyx was watching it intently, but was likely using someone else's seat to do so.

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I mean, probably Death on the Nile. People are watching that on planes all the time lately.

So Onyx is probably actually watching it on someone else's seat.

Yeah, we wait till the least hyped part.

Can you tell me what's happening? Why did you put it on the back of my head?

Because I can't get enough of Kenneth Branagh. I wanted to watch the mustache origin again.

Okay. You got Branagh brain.

You see Keychain rotates his arm all the way back and says hello. I am Keychain pleased to meet you.

Keychain in the way of getting dredged off. Sorry.

You started it again Keychain!

I am a DVD menu.

Keychain swallows the DVD and you hear Dr. Evil say, how about no, Jens?

Oh, that's good. Oh, that's great.

I just watched this and you guys are doing pulls that I don't remember.

You see Keychain fishes the Austin Powers DVD out of his satchel.

No, now it's too late.

Now everyone's going to know the impression.

Do you understand the catch-22 that I'm in?

This is it's like a really bad film.

It's like amusingly bad.

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