Page 1 About the Author
Agatha, author of Massacre on the Nile, was born on September 15, 1890 at Ashfield Mansion in Torquay, Devonshire, England, with the original surname Miller and her full name being Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. Agatha Christie's father was The British-American Frederick Alva Miller and the mother was the Englishman Clarissa Clara Bercimmer Miller. She is the 3rd child in the family and has 1 older sister, Margaret Frely Miller, and 1 older brother, Louis Montanter Miller.
Agatha Christie's cultural attainments derived entirely from her mother's education. Her mother was a woman with a unique personality and an active mind. She sent her eldest daughter Margaret Fury Miller (nicknamed Maggie) and son Louis Montante Miller (nicknamed Monty) to the top boarding schools in the UK, Lawrence Girls' School and Harrow College, and then suddenly believed that the child's eyesight and brain should be protected, leaving Agatha Christie around to prevent her from being educated until she was 8 years old. But Agatha Christie still learned to read at the age of 5 with her own intelligence and the limited help of her mother, who is not highly educated. Since then, Agatha Christie has been flipping through various children's books and accepting her literary enlightenment.
Due to the father's poor financial management, the family's conditions began to deteriorate. In order to avoid the high consumption in the Uk, the parents decided to rent out the house and spend the family abroad for a holiday with low consumption. In 1896, 6-year-old Agatha Christie lived with her family in western France for six months. This was the beginning of Agatha Christie's learning French and learning about social activities.
After returning to England, his father's physical condition gradually deteriorated. In 1901, his father died of acute pneumonia in London Ealing. Seven months later, her sister Maggie got married. His brother Monty, on the other hand, was expelled from Harrow College and went on a military career. As a result, only Agatha Christie was left in the family to live with her mother.
At this time Agatha Christie began to read some English and French masterpieces, such as Dickens, Thackeray and Dumas. Every time she visits her aunt in London's Ealing, she has the opportunity to watch stage plays and musicals at the theatre, which has become a big hobby for her. Influenced by such a edification, coupled with the influence of the talented sister, Agatha's creative desire sprouted. She began experimenting with poetry, novels, and even screenplays. At this point, the mother finally realized that her daughter should be given more education.
In 1905, Agatha Christie accompanied her mother to boarding school in Paris. Her mother's whim and Agatha Christie's fresh-loving personality led her to transfer schools twice in Paris, eventually majoring in piano and vocal music. Although her voice was once considered promising, her acting phobia forced her to rationally abandon her path as a musician.
In 1909, accompanied by her sick mother to Egypt for recuperation, Agatha Christie, who was under the age of 20, began her social life in Cairo, attending many dances and other social events. Meanwhile, with her mother's encouragement, Agatha completed her first novel study, The Snow-Covered Desert, with enthusiastic guidance from her neighbor, the novelist Eden Fiertz. The work of writers Mae Sinclair and Gaston LeRoux had a great influence on Agatha Christie, especially the latter's Mystery of the Yellow House, which inspired her enthusiasm for creating detective novels. However, her sister Maggie believes that Agatha Christie cannot write detective novels, which strengthens her determination to create.
The arrival of the Second World War disrupted the order of life for all. Max joined the army and was sent to North Africa as a Middle Eastern expert. Daughter Rosalind married and had children, but her husband was killed in 1944. Agatha Christie volunteered at the local hospital in the midst of the hectics, still devoting her spare time to writing. On January 12, 1976, he died in the Wallingford family in Oxfordshire, England, and was buried in st. Mary's Church cemetery in Oxfordshire at the age of 85.
Page 2 Reader Comments
1. Agatha Christie's works are very characteristic in layout and plot. As soon as the work is opened, it is full of doubts and strange things, which confuses and curiosities the reader. Reading Christie's work, the climax is so high that the reader can't stop, and when he stares at her, he can't guess what kind of medicine christie is selling in his gourd. When the reader is slightly negligent, she will surprise you. The author is familiar with history, geography, and worked in hospitals during the two world wars, and has studied medicines (especially poisons), which also provides conditions for Christie to design murderers to commit crimes.
2) Each of Agatha Christie's detective novels is a clever use of psychology in literature. There are countless "gray cells" in her poirot's mind, and the "gray cells" are the factors that the short detective has reasoned about everyone's psychology to the scientific action of everyone. Poirot is good at making a comprehensive analysis of the other party's clothing, demeanor, hobbies, experiences and outlook on life, and then logical reasoning.
3. Although Agatha Christie did not enter a formal school, her writing was exquisite and beautiful, her language was fluent and natural, and she was clearly influenced by Dickens's novels. Her novels surpassed Conan Doyle in structure. Conan Doyle excelled at writing short stories, while Christie mastered a multitude of characters and complex plots to conceive long detective novels. She also has more foreshadowing and clues in her novels than Conan Doyle. Christie is good at using multi-faceted expression to reflect social reality, and inserting descriptions of the background and customs of the times behind each murder.
Page 3 Background of writing
"Massacre on the Nile" reveals the growing problem of crime in Western society, and Miss Lynette, who is in her youth, has actually fallen into a dangerous environment in which her life can be plotted at any time since she inherited her father's huge fortune. Money, the reason why it has become a sin, is because people live in a world where people are fighting for money.
The unscrupulous pursuit of wealth in capitalist society and the resulting social contradictions are the reasons for Miss Linnett's death, and the harsh social reality reflected in this work. This is a detective story about homicidal crime, and the novel is known for its ingenious conception, bizarre plot, and meticulous reasoning and analysis. In the West, she is on a par with the British detective novelist Conan Doyle. Agalmos has become a symbol of wisdom.
Page 4 Summary of contents
The heroine of the story is the young and beautiful Miss Linnett. Due to the death of her father, she has just become the sole heir to the family's huge property. Now, she drives to one of her own estates. At the estate, Lynette meets simon Dole, the fiancé of his girlfriend Jackie, and they fall in love at first sight and marry lightning. When the newspaper published a photo of Lynette marrying Simon and the news that they were going to Egypt for their honeymoon, it caused a lot of repercussions. Lynette's misfortune began.
The enchanting banks of the Nile are beautiful, majestic in architecture, and dotted with monuments, however, Linette is not pleasant, and Jackie's figure always follows them. One day, when she and Simon climbed the pyramid and had not yet caught their breath, Jackie appeared behind Lynette like a ghost, shouting loudly, which made Lynette very unhappy, and she angrily shouted to Jackie, "Get out!"
The Linnettes were on the Karnak yacht, and those who had various "relationships" with Linnette also gathered on the yacht. Among them are:
Lynette's U.S. industrial manager and stealthy U.S. lawyer Pennington; "Fond" precious necklaces, especially Mrs. Skell, who covets the precious necklace that Lynette is carrying around her neck;
Mrs. Skell's servant Bowles, Lynette's father ruined her family property, and she hated Lynette to the bone;
Mrs. Otterburn, a novelist who specializes in yellow works, is accused by Lynette of making a vulgar description of Lynette in the book, and is in danger of compensating a large amount of damages, and her daughter Rosaly is very worried about her mother;
There is also Dr. Besner, whose hospital reputation has been greatly affected by Lynette's public accusations that he is a quack;
In addition, Louise, the maid around Lynette, is not loyal to her master, and because Lynette does not agree to her marriage and does not pay her wages, she is bitter in her heart and is very dissatisfied with her master;
Even Ferguson, the young man on the ship who did not seem to have a special relationship with Lynette, hated Lynette, who had read Capital, witnessed Lynette's rich life, and thought that she should be "killed" as a parasite;
To Lynette's constant dismay, Jackie was also on board. Linette's side is really full of dangers.
However, there were other people on board, and Colonel Reis, a British lawyer who was secretly opposing Pennington to protect Lynette's interests, was on board, and Reese's old friend, the famous Belgian detective Poirot, also toured the ship. Poirot's thoughtful and intelligent mind was already aware of the strangeness of the ship. At the ball, beside the ship, during the land excursion, some traces of silk gradually formed a valuable judgment map in his thinking.
One night, he went out of his way to Jackie and warned her not to do stupid things. But strange things keep happening. While visiting a famous ancient Egyptian building on the shore, a huge stone fell from the top of the tall building, almost hitting Linnet below. Then something even more unexpected happened.
It was a dull night. In the restaurant, Jackie drank a lot of wine, drunkenly and verbally stimulating the Linettes. Linette couldn't stand it and went back to sleep. Simon advises Jackie not to make trouble and asks her to go back to sleep, jackie is furious, and she says to Simon, "Sleep? You really call me disgusting!" As she spoke, she took out her pocket pistol and pointed it at Simon. The shot rang out, and Simon, who had been hit in the leg, fell to the ground. At this time, the only person present was Rosalie.
Rosalie and Ferguson, who had arrived, sent the hysterical Jackie back to her room and called Bowles to accompany jackie all night. Ferguson called dr. Bethner to bandage Simon, and Bethner nursed Simon all night. The night seemed to be calm again.
However, a murder finally happened. Early in the morning, Louise's scream awakens people, and Lynette is dead in her cabin, with a bullet hole in her beautiful head. Colonels Poirot and Reis, who knew nothing of what was going on at night, also rushed to the scene with the people. It is judged that Lynette was killed in his sleep with a small pistol between midnight and 2 a.m.
Poirot and Colonel Reiss quickly began their reconnaissance. First of all, they judged that at night they had drunk alcohol that had been given sweat medicine and were unable to wake up, was this the work of the murderer? Who is the murderer? Why kill Linnett? During the investigation, it seems that only Jackie and Simon can rule out the possibility of committing the crime, because they are either guarded all night or are injured and unable to move, and Simon is Lynette's new husband, while others have various motives for committing crimes. But Poirot didn't jump to conclusions.
When asked about the situation at Simon's bedside, Louise appeared guilty about her master's death and said, "If only I were present...". This made Poirot think about it, and Simon's face flashed a subtle expression. The reconnaissance continued, and the killer did not stop moving. Then terror befell Poirot.
In the morning, as Poirot shaved his whiskers in his room, he was surprised to see a poisonous snake coming toward him. The wise Poirot no longer moved his body, he gently knocked on the wall of Colonel Reis next door, and the alert Reis drew his sword, turned and came in, and stabbed the snake with lightning speed, turning the danger into a disaster. But then Louise died suddenly, and she was cut in the throat with a sharp object.
Poirot took out fragments of a thousand francs of paper money from Louise's clutched hand, which made him realize something. However, before he could act, Mrs. Otterburn, who was clamoring that she knew who the killer was, was suddenly shot and killed from outside in front of Simon's bed. Poirot, who had a clear understanding of the case, was greatly remorseful for his slow action, and he gathered the people on the ship together and announced that he wanted to reveal the murderer. People with all sorts of moods gathered in the dining room, and Poirot was not in a hurry to analyze the entire case with his rigorous reasoning.
He first quietly pointed out the motives and timing of the crimes of each person who had various "relations" with Lynette, and it seemed that everyone was responsible for Lynette's death:
Louise, Bowers, and Fergus may prey on Lynette because of their intense hatred for Lynette;
Since Lynette's death would benefit Dr. Bethner, Mrs. Otterburn, Rosalie, and Pennington financially, they might all want to kill Lynette.
Poirot even pointed out that Pennington had already done it—that he had pushed down the boulder that had fallen from the ancient building and nearly killed Lynette.
As for Mrs. Skye, for the sake of the precious necklace (which she had carefully observed with a magnifying glass on Lynette's chest as soon as she got on the boat), it was entirely possible that she would have killed Lynette.
But these were all possibilities, and Poirot finally came to the shocking conclusion that the real culprits were Simon and Jackie. In everyone's surprise, Poirot revealed the truth of the facts. It was a well-planned crime. Jackie conspires with Simon to seize Lynette's property. After creating a series of illusions, they performed a fake fight that night, and the result was that Jackie shot Simon, but did not hit him, Simon pretended to be injured, and while people went to the doctor (five minutes during this period, enough to commit the crime) to run to Lynette's room and kill her, and when he came back, he shot himself in the leg, and this time he really hurt.
The problem is that his actions are seen by one man, and that is Louise. Louise said to Poirot if I were here... It was actually an implication that she was present at the time. So to whom to hint. Simon, of course. Louise needed money. Simon and Jackie could not tolerate her presence, and they set a trap, and while Louise was counting the blackmailed francs, Jackie got down from behind and cut her throat with the Doctor's scalpel, while she still had a corner of the franc in her hand.
At this point, the criminal thought that there was no more loophole and was done, but he did not expect that there was another witness, Mrs. Otterburn, who saw Jackie kill Louise, and she thought that she had the whole case, so she reported to Simon that she knew who Lynette's murderer was. The panicked Simon shouted: "You say you know who killed my wife!" This is to inform Jackie next door.
The situation was critical and they had no other choice, and Jackie shot Mrs. Otterburn outside the window. Listening to Poirot's analysis, everyone fell into contemplation. Simon was not reconciled and said to Poirot: You have no evidence. Poirot looked at him and said patiently: there is an impression test that can easily find traces of gunpowder left in the hands of the shooter, and allows it to be used as a legal basis. Desperate, Simon and Jackie, helpless, hug each other while shooting themselves.
Page 5 Quotes
1, life is empty, a little love, some hatred, and good morning; Life is short, a little hopeful, some dreams, and goodnight to each other.
2) Don't let evil enter your heart, it will make its home there.
3) "Love is not everything, Miss." Poirot said gently, "We only think that way when we're young." ”
4) What matters is not the past, but the future.
(To be continued)
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