In which year was Agatha Christie's novel Death on the Nile published? The answer is 1937.
The novel was published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 November 1937. It features Hercule Poirot investigating a murder among wealthy passengers travelling along the Nile in Egypt, combining a closed-circle mystery with an exotic setting.
The year can be confused because the American edition appeared in 1938, published by Dodd, Mead and Company. The first US publication date therefore does not change the novel’s original publication year: the British first edition came out in 1937.
Death on the Nile was part of Christie’s Poirot sequence. It followed Dumb Witness and preceded Appointment with Death. It is also separate from an earlier Christie short story with the same title, which featured Parker Pyne rather than Poirot.