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At Simon's insistence, the two other persons present, Cornelia and Mr.

That night on the boat, Jacqueline gets into a drunken rage, takes out a pistol, and shoots Simon in the leg, then breaks down in a hysterical state of remorse. Race tells Poirot that one of the passengers is a deadly criminal who has murdered several other people, only Race has not yet identified him. Poirot meets his friend Colonel Race, who is joining everyone on the boat for the return trip.

They suspect Jacqueline at first but find out she was on the boat the whole time and could not have done it. While taking a tour of some ancient ruins, a boulder falls from a cliff, narrowly missing Linnet and Simon. To their rage, Jacqueline learns their plans and appears on board with them.

Poirot says the Doyles have no legal recourse, but tries to reason with Jacqueline in private, urging her to let go of her attachment to Simon and not "open heart to evil." Jacqueline refuses to listen, confiding that she has been dreaming of killing Linnet.Īttempting to give Jacqueline the slip, the Doyles plan an extended stay in Cairo, while secretly booking passage on the same Nile river cruise as Poirot. Afterward, Linnet approaches Poirot and confides that Jacqueline has been stalking them since they were married, which is antagonizing both of them. At their shared hotel in Cairo, Poirot sees an apparent chance meeting between the Doyles and Jacqueline. Poirot happens to encounter the couple on their honeymoon to Egypt, where he himself is on holiday. Three months later, Simon has broken off his engagement to Jacqueline and married Linnet. The next day, Jacqueline takes Simon to meet her best friend, the wealthy young heiress Linnet Ridgeway, in the hopes that Linnet will offer Simon a job. Poirot also notices that Jackie (a nickname given to her and used by intimates short for Jacqueline) is very much smitten and is in love with Simon. While dining out in London one evening, Hercule Poirot notices a young woman, Jacqueline de Bellefort, dining and dancing with her fiancé, Simon Doyle.