

Poirot agrees to talk to Jacqueline, though he doesn’t accept any payment-he says he will talk to Jacqueline in the general interest of humanity. So far, she hasn’t done anything violent, but just her presence has been affecting Linnet’s nerves. She explains her problem: Jacqueline has been following her and Simon on their honeymoon. Otterbourne is traveling with her daughter Rosalie in order to get inspiration for her romance novels.Īt the Cataract Hotel in Aswan, Egypt, the famous detective Hercule Poirot is on vacation when he finds himself approached by Linnet. Allerton are tired of vacationing in Mallorca Miss Van Schuyler is traveling with her poorer and younger cousin, Cornelia Robson and Mrs. Other characters also make separate plans to go to Egypt on vacation: Tim Allerton and his mother Mrs.

Linnet’s American trustee Andrew Pennington and her British lawyer James Fanthorp both makes plans to head immediately to Egypt. News of the marriage and the couple’s subsequent honeymoon in Egypt reaches around the world. When her friend Jacqueline De Bellefort asks Linnet to find a job for her poor fiancé, Simon Doyle, Linnet ends up marrying Simon instead. Rumor has it that she is engaged to be married to Lord Windlesham, though she is not interested in subsuming herself to someone of higher rank. Linnet Ridgeway is a wealthy, glamorous heiress who lives in the English country village of Malton-under-Wode at the manor she recently bought and is planning to improve.
