History Literature / DeathOnTheNile

* BrainsAndBrawn: [[spoiler:Jacqueline and Simon, respectively.]]

* TwoDunIt: [[spoiler: Jacqueline was faking the deranged stalker, WomanScorned routine all the while, and she and Simon were in it together, killing Jackie so that they could live off her money.]]

* {{Yandere}}: Jacqueline, showing both affection for her ex-fiance and crazy-level jealousy towards Linnet who stole him from her. [[spoiler: This is a SubvertedTrope as we find out it was it was all a cover to hide her complicity with Simon. In fact, she was even ready to set her love free to marry ''her best friend''.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Poirot's replacement, Canon Pennyfather, attempts to school [[spoiler:Jackie on why she must not take her own life, and instead live on "until the appointed end" and endure the punishment for murder, for the sake of her soul. He hands her back her gun, to allow her to make the choice herself - and after considering, she puts the gun back down and surrenders herself.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Canon Ambrose Pennyfather is a combination of Poirot, Race and Pennington. Louise also takes Salome Otterbourne's [[spoiler:death scene, being shot from outside the room.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Poirot solves the case, and Rosalie gets her happy ending. [[spoiler:Jacqueline kills herself and Simon, however, and Jacqueline seems to acknowledge before doing so that their scheme wasn't worth it]].

** Fairly early in the story, the narration follows [[spoiler:Simon Doyle]]'s thoughts, which in retrospect have an entirely different meaning to that which they seem to at the time: "What a fool [[spoiler:he’d]] been to be worried that first night ... There was nothing to worry about... Everything was all right... After all, one could [[spoiler:trust Jackie]]..."

* BrokenBird: Jacqueline becomes this after Linnet steals Simon from her, going from a devoted friend to a broken-hearted stalker driven by spite. [[spoiler: Even after this is revealed to have been an act as part of her and Simon's plot to kill Linnet, she still notes to Poirot that she's not the same person anymore, admitting she's frightened at how easy she found it to kill Louise and Mrs Otterbourne if it meant she and Simon would be safe.]]

-->'''Colonel Race:''' ''[talking about [[spoiler:Mrs. Otterbourne]]]'' What a poisonous woman! Whew! Why didn't somebody murder ''her!'' \\

Literature/HerculePoirot is on holiday in Egypt, on a Nile River cruise. Among the other passengers is Linnet Ridgeway, a rich, beautiful heiress, honeymooning with her husband Simon Doyle. Doyle was engaged to Linnet’s best friend, Jacqueline de Bellefort, before he met Linnet, and broke it off. Heartbroken and wanting revenge on her former friend for stealing her fiancé, Jacqueline started following them everywhere they go. When Linnet gets killed, Jacqueline is the obvious suspect...or she ''would'' be, if she didn't have an ironclad alibi, being in the presence of two other people at the time that Linnet was killed. So who did it?

* {{Manchild}}: Jacqueline's description of Simon. She claims that he left her for Linnet not because he actually loved Linnet, but because he was dazzled by her glamour. [[spoiler:After Poirot exposes both of them as Linnet's killers, she claims that Simon is not really evil, just very simple. He lost his job in London after he was caught embezzling, thinking that that's what everyone in the city did. Likewise, he became quite enamored with the idea of marrying Linnet for her money just because he wanted to own big, shiny toys (cars, yachts and racehorses). Jacqueline only helped him to murder Linnet because he was dumb enough to think he could simply poison her and never be suspected. Poirot has his private doubts about her assessment of Simon's character, but keeps them to himself.]]

* {{Manchild}}: Jacqueline's description of Simon. She claims that he left her for Linnet not because he actually loved Linnet, but because he was dazzled by her glamour. [[spoiler:After Poirot exposes both of them as Linnet's killers, she claims that Simon is not really evil, just very simple. He lost his job in the City of London after he was caught embezzling, thinking that that's what everyone in the city did. Likewise, he became quite enamored with the idea of marrying Linnet for her money just because he wanted to own big, shiny toys (cars, yachts and racehorses). Jacqueline only helped him to murder Linnet because he was dumb enough to think he could simply poison her and never be suspected. Poirot has his private doubts about her assessment of Simon's character, but keeps them to himself.]]

* TwoDunIt: Jacqueline was faking the deranged stalker, WomanScorned routine all the while, and she and Simon were in it together, killing Jackie so that they could live off her money.

* {{Manchild}}: Jacqueline's description of Simon. She claims that he left her for Linnet not because he actually loved Linnet, but because he was dazzled by her glamour. [[spoiler:After Poirot exposes both of them as Linnet's killers, she claims that Simon is not really evil, just very simple. He lost his job in London after he was caught embezzling, thinking that that's what everyone in the city did. Likewise, he became quite enamored with the idea of marrying Linnet for her money just because he wanted to own big, shiny toys (cars, yachts and racehorses). Jacqueline only helped him to murder Linnet because he was dumb enough to think he could simply poison her and never be suspected. Poirot has his private doubts about her assessment of Simon's character, but keeps them to himself.]]

* {{Manchild}}: Jacqueline's description of Simon. She claims that he left her for Linnet not because he actually loved Linnet, but because he was dazzled by her glamour. [[spoiler:After Poirot exposes both of them as Linnet's killers, she claims that Simon is not really evil, just very simple. He lost his job in the City of London because he tried to do something "clever", not because he was dishonest but because he thought everyone in the City did; likewise, he became quite enamored of marrying Linnet for her money just because he wanted to own big, shiny toys (cars, yachts and racehorses). Jacqueline only helped him to murder Linnet because he was dumb enough to think he could simply poison her and never be suspected. Poirot has his private doubts about her assessment of Simon's character, but keeps them to himself.]]

* {{Manchild}}: Jacqueline's description of Simon. She claims that he left her for Linnet not because he actually loved Linnet, but because he was dazzled by her glamour. [[spoiler:After Poirot exposes both of them as Linnet's killers, she claims that Simon is not really evil, just very simple. He lost his job in the City of London because he tried to do something "clever", not because he was dishonest but because he thought everyone in the City did; likewise, he became quite enamored of marrying Linnet for her money just because he wanted to own big, shiny toys (cars, yachts and racehorses). Jacqueline only helped him because he was dumb enough to think he could simply poison Linnet and never be suspected. Poirot has his private doubts about her assessment of Simon's character, but keeps them to himself.]]

* {{Manchild}}: Jacqueline's description of Simon. [[spoiler:According to her, he's not really evil, just very simple. He lost his job in the City of London because he tried to do something "clever", not because he was dishonest but because he thought everyone in the City did; likewise, he became quite enamored of marrying Linnet for her money just because he wanted to own big, shiny toys (cars, yachts and racehorses). Jacqueline only helped him because he was dumb enough to think he could simply poison Linnet and never be suspected. Poirot has his private doubts about her assessment of Simon's character, but keeps them to himself.]]

* BrokenBird: Jacqueline becomes after Linnet steals Simon from her, going from a devoted friend to a broken-hearted stalker driven by spite. [[spoiler: Even after this is revealed to have been an act as part of her and Simon's plot to kill Linnet, she still notes to Poirot that she's not the same person anymore, admitting she's frightened at how easy she found it to kill Louise and Mrs Otterbourne if it meant she and Simon would be safe.]]

** [[spoiler:The very same night Linnet is murdered, Tim enters her cabin to steal her pearls.]]

* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:Louise witnessed Simon murdering Linnet, so she demands a lot of money from him in return for her silence. It gets her killed.]]
* BlackmailBackfire: Louise the maid saw who killed Linnet, tries to use this for blackmail, and gets murdered instead.