Which Christie novel features a murder on a Nile cruise?

The Agatha Christie novel featuring a murder on a Nile cruise is Death on the Nile. Published in 1937, the mystery follows Hercule Poirot during a luxury voyage along the River Nile, where a wealthy passenger is murdered and nearly everyone aboard has a possible motive.

The story combines a classic closed-circle investigation with an exotic travel setting. Because the suspects are confined to a moving riverboat, Poirot can question them systematically while studying their relationships, financial interests and hidden resentments. The Nile setting also gives the novel an atmosphere of grandeur and danger, contrasting ancient monuments with modern crime.

Death on the Nile is often confused with Appointment with Death, another Christie mystery involving travel in the Middle East, or Murder in Mesopotamia, which is set at an archaeological excavation. The novel has been adapted several times, including the 1978 film starring Peter Ustinov and a 2022 film directed by Kenneth Branagh.