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Important Characters You Meet in Part I
Linnet Ridgeway
Joanna Southwood
Jacqueline de Bellefort
Marie (the maid)
Lord Charles Windlesham
Simon Doyle
Hercule Poirot
Tim Allerton
Mrs. Allerton
Cornelia Robson
Miss Maria Van Schuyler
Miss Bowers
Andrew Pennington (business partner to Sterndale Rockford)
Jim Fanthorp (business partner to William Carmichael)
Mrs. Salome Otterbourne
Rosalie Otterbourne
Important Characters You Meet in Part II (but not all right away)
Colonel Race
Mr. Jim Fergusen
Dr. Bessner
Mr. Guido Richetti
Fleetwood
Louise Bourget

Part I: England (Note: Some books indicate Part I as chapter one. Know which book you have.)
1. Describe Linnet's character
2. Describe her friendship with Joanna
3. Describe her friendship with Jackie
4. Why does she refuse Windleshom?
5. How do readers meet Poirot?
6. How is it that they all end up in Egypt?

Part II: Egypt: Ch. 1-4
1. How does Poirot become involved?
2. Why does he agree to speak to Jackie?
3. What plan does Jackie share with him?
4. Does Linnet feel she's done anything wrong?
Ch. 5-9
1. Who does Simon Doyle blame for Jackie's behavior, why?
2. Simon and Linnet devise a plan to avoid Jackie, what is the plan?
Does it work?
3. How old is Linnet?
4. Poirot lists many motives for murder, try to list them all
5. Describe the first attempts at Linnet's life?
6. How does the setting change?
7. Are Simon and Linnet alike in their approach to business? Why not?
Ch. 10 & 11
1. What does the word "fey" mean? Why is it ironic that this word was used? (What has just happened?)
2. Why is Colonel Race aboard the Karnak?
3. What did Miss Van Schuyler lose in the dining cabin?
4. What do Jackie and Cornelia talk about over drinks? Is Jackie really listening?
5. What does Jackie do to Simon? Who is a witness to this?
6. What happens to Jackie's pistol?
Oh. 12 & 13
7. What clues are found in Linnet's room as her body is discovered?
8. At what time does Col. Race believe Linnet was shot?
9. How does Jackie get cleared of Linnet's murder?
Oh. 14 - 17
10. What happened to Linnet's pearls?
11. What might Pennington's motive be?
12. What was Miss Van Schuyler missing and when did it turn up?
13. Who was seen throwing something overboard?
14. Name at least one lie of Mr. Pennington.

Ch. 18-21
15. What did Rosalie Otterbourne actually throw over and why?
16. Where do the pearls actually turn up? Who had them and why?
17. In the official search, who had the signet ring? the big wooden rosary? the two bottles of Nailex? the heavy Colt revolver? who was the other dead woman?
Ch. 22-26
1. How did Linnet's maid die?
2. What did Poirot accuse Rosalie of having in her purse?
3. Who comes in, all excited, that she knows the murderer?
4. What happens to her?
5. Amidst the murders, there is a marriage proposal-who? Yes/No
6. Who does Fanthorp turn out to be?
7. Who admits to stumbling and falling against the boulder that almost hit
Linnet earlier?
8. What is the real connection between Joanna Southwood and Tim Allerton?
Ch 27-30
1. Who turns out to be the dangerous agitator that Race had been looking for? What's the clue?
2. How had Poirot been drugged?
3. Who actually shot Linnet?
4. Was the crime premeditated? What are the two clues that prove this?
5. Who killed both Louise and Mrs. Otterbourne?
6. Do Jackie and Simon live happily ever after?
7. Who are the new "couples" at the end of the mystery?