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Death on the Nile-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). The murder of an English heiress in Egypt, followed by two more baffling killings, solved by Agatha Christie's famed Hercule Poirot in a story that is readable, implausible, but contains the most genuinely surprising solution of the month...
...complex religion of "the refined and fortunate and vulnerable land of Egypt," and makes himself valuable to his master by his ability to write and calculate. From the great fortress of Thel, through the religious centres of On and Per-Bastet, on a nine-day voyage up the crowded Nile past Memphis and the pyramids, he gives himself up to observation, impressed and depressed at the grandeur of a civilization of which, as a child of the desert, he has heard only evil...
Egypt's habitable land is chiefly a cobra-shaped ribbon stretching along the Nile from the broad delta at Alexandria to the narrow rocky cataracts of the Sudan border. Along that green cobra live 16,000,000 people, of whom 2,000,000 last week took advantage of fare reductions to journey to Cairo by train, steamer, felucca, autobus, camel and donkey. They went to celebrate the wedding of Farouk, their 18-year-old king, to Farida, meaning "unique," his 17-year-old Queen...
...given away. Considering the excitement with which Egyptians approach such a simple problem as boarding a street car, it was a triumph for Cairo's police and details of the Egyptian Army that only 400 people fell from balconies, were trampled to death, pushed under cars, into the Nile, or otherwise injured...
...nearly vamped the Roman Empire to death. But if Cleopatra had been half as lucky in historians as she was in love, her reputation would now be very different. Such, at least, is the thesis of Biographer Ludwig's Cleopatra. A by-product of Ludwig's The Nile (TIME, Feb. 22), Cleopatra adds no new data to the little there is to go on: three lines from a letter of Antony's, one authentic bust. But Author Ludwig reopens the 2,000-year-old Cleopatra Case on the grounds that all contemporary evidence, except Plutarch...