About the book: year / Three murders occurred on a steamship sailing along the Nile to Egypt. The brilliant detective, the shrewd, good-natured Hercule Poirot, a participant in this excursion, cannot indulge in idleness and immediately begins to investigate... Why, for what, who killed the young beautiful rich woman? How many murderers were there? Who and why replaced pearl beads with fake ones? Refusing many versions and discarding overwhelming facts, Poirot successfully solves the mysterious crime.