Death on the Nile: The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: I d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger. Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed They do it with mirrors: They Do It with Mirrors, where Miss Marple investigates some rather deadly doings at a rehabilitation center for delinquents.