Category: Death on the Nile Characters

Thomas Needham

November 28, 2022

Death On The Nile Character Sheet

 

First Name

Last Name

Description

 

Linnet

Ridgeway-Doyle

Rich woman who has a remorseless attitude to others. Tends to get whatever she wants. Very selfish and gives an ora of self involvement and self importance.  Has many enemies, is very smart . a somewhat tall woman with blonde hair.

 

Mr. Burnaby

Landlord of the 3 Crowns and the Wode mansion and is  very pleased man because linnet purchased the Wode  Hall from George Wode and expected that Linnet would invest also in the town Wode hall was located by building Ballrooms, gardens and swimming pools in Wode Hall.

 

George

Wode

A person who went bankrupt and sold his estate to Linnet and loves horse racing.

 

Joanna

Southwood

A good friend of Linnet. A very mean spirited,snobby woman who will not be associated with anybody that she feels is not financially stable.  Very superficial and admitted that if Linnet was not wealthy she wouldn’t be friends with her which  was one of thw many points of her superficialness.

 

Tobey

Brice. According the gossip column it has been assumed that he would be with Joanna Southwood.

Very good friend of  Melhuish

 

Melhuish

Ridgeway

Father to Linnet and husband to Anna. Is a financer who almost bankrupted  Ned Robson, he is also good friends with Andrew who has described him in a positive light by saying he was remarkable as well as successful.

 

Anna

Harts-Ridgeway

Mother of Linnet, wife of  Melhuish Daughter of an American millionaire and inherited the family fortune

 

Leopolts

Harts

Father of Anna very rich person. But Mrs. Van Schuyler has stated  to Colonel Race that her or her family would have no dealings with the Harts due to outside their wealth they wouldn’t have anything to do with them because the Van Schuyler family was very exclusive.

 

Charles

Windlesham

A friend of Linnet, Joanna and Tobey. There were rumors that he was engaged to Linnet at one time and he comes from a very rich family.

Is very in love with Linnet. He has said he does not love Linnet because of her money but has a characteristic of a gold digger.

 

Jacqueline

De Bellefort

Very in love with Simon, is Simon’s ex fiancé and very obsessive with both Linnet and Simon. Plans to marry Simon. Used to be a rich heiress who lost a lot of her money, before Linnet married Simon she was Linnets best friend at one point and the trip on The Nile with Simon on their honeymoon if they were married, her father was French and her mother was a woman from the South in the US. Her mom lost of her money which at one time was the windfall for Jackie.  Suspected of wanting to kill Linnet because she has a gun. Described as a short, skinny woman with dark curley  hair.

 

Marie

Linnets former  maid and is apparently getting over a relationship, she was going to marry Fleetwood. But Fleetwood is already married with kids. She believed Linnet ruined her life.

 

Simon

Doyle

Linnets husband but is still in love  with Jackie and married her best friend Linnet and is believed to have married her for her money.  A tall man, with  curly dark hair and dark blue eyes

 

Gaston

Blondin

A Restaurant owner  and one of the customers of the  Chez  Ma  Tante. Even though he owns a restaurant he does not pay any attention to many of his customers. its very rare   times he welcomes customers such as Inspector Poirot  and when he occasionally greets his guest he will talk with them and even show them their table. But in particular she is very welcoming to HP and does treat him as a very important patron.

 

Hercule

Poirot

A very successful private detective,retired police officer from Belgium.       and is rich. Is famously known as a private detective and very good at his job. Has a conscious about people who are guilty or untrustworthy and is one of the reasons he will not help Linnet with her worries about Jackie. Has a thick mustache and is well built and stout

 

Tim

Allerton

A very wealthy man due to the stock market and that is why he is on the cruise liner for The Nile. Very talkative and gossipy, is the second   cousin with Joanna Southwood and is a thief. He is tall, thin and has dark hair

 

Mrs. Allerton

Is tim’s mother and does not like Joanna and untrusting of Tim and Joannas relationship even though they are second cousins. Does not think Tim should go on the trip because people counting their pennies still should not go on such expensive cruises. and also does not like Linnet because Linnet stold Simon from Jackie and has a nice relationship with George who had his estate bought by Linnet due to him losing his money.  A woman in her fifties with shite hair.

 

Mrs. Robson

Mother of Cornelia, is a widow and is related to Van Schuyler and is happy that Van Schuyler takes Cornelia with her on the trip which makes Mrs. Robson very happy.

 

Cornelia

Robson

A very nice woman but her family was ruined by Linnets father and she is poor who lives in New York City and is clumsy, she is a short woman with dark hair and dark eyes. She is the niece of Mrs. Van Schuyler

 

Mrs. Van Schuyler

A mean grouchy woman who is also a kleptomaniac. She is going to tske her niece Cornelia on a trip to The Nile. She is very bossy to anyone she believes is beneath her.

 

Ms. Bowers

A nurse of Van Schuyler not just for health reason but because Van Schuylet is a known  thief of Linnets  pearls.

 

Andrew

Pennington

Linnet’s American  trustee and also does not approve of Linnet marrying Simon. Also gives a suspicion of trying to get Linnets money. A tall man with gray hair  and a clever looking face.

 

Fleetwood

One of  the engineers on board The  Karnak and also likes Marie. Linnet liked him until she found out he was married with three kids. Does not like Linnet because he believes she ruined her chances to marry. He was ssuspected of Linnets murder because of that motive.

 

Sterndale

Rockford

A partner of  Andrew. One of Linnets trustees a very clean cut person in appearance.

 

William

Carmichael

Is james Uncle and is a senior partner in a firm that bears his name and was Linnets English Solicitors

 

Jim

Fanthorp

Works for his Uncle William Carmichael.  Does not like Linnet. Smart and quiet heis also Linnets lawyer.

 

Salom

Otterbourne

A very mean spirited woman from Jerusalim and wants to leave. She is an author and  hates Linnet because of Jealousy and is a drunk.

 

Rosalie

Otterbourne

Is very mean she has the same negative attitude of her mother Salom. She is trying to help her mother through Saloms alcoholism Is the fiancé of Tim Allerton

 

Mr. Richetti

An Architect, has a kind of silent motive such as him not wanting to have Linnet look at his telegrams, seems secretive. He is a killer. He sells weapons and when he received a telegram about weapons and Linnet read it he got real upset with her. He has killed before and is on the run.

 

Carl

Bessner

A doctor in Europe and has  a very large clinic in Czechoslovokia and has bragged that he is well known in Austria. He is somewhat paranoide because he believes that HP believes he is a murderer. He is Cornelia’s fiance

 

Mr. Furgason

An Aristocrat who  is a communist and is very in love  with Cornelia and attended  Oxford and when he proposed Cornelia she rejcted him and said no. He hates rich people he thinks Linnet should be killed gives a very mean spirited attitude towards all. Though he is wealthy he does not live like one.

 

Colonel Race

A friend of HP who helps him figure out who killed Linnet and is a police officer.

 

Louise

Bourget

Maid of Linnet. Very cunning and seems vindictive and wants to find Linnets murderer  by blackmail for money also protected the murderer for HP so she can keep blackmailing for money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In chapter 10 Linnet is nearly hit by a boulder at the Egyptian temple. No one saw who pushed the boulder, but they immediately suspected Jaclyn. However Jaclyn was on the boat when everyone returned, this removed her of suspicion.

In chapter five of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile, Jacqueline de Bellefort and Monsieur Hercule Poirot discuss the love, her and Simon shared and his relationship with Linnet. Jackie then states “Look at the moon up there. You see her very plainly, don’t you? She’s very real. But if the sun were to you wouldn’t be able to see her at all”. Linnet is the sun, Jackie is the moon when the sun shines it blinds you it’s all you see. To Simon and many others Linnet is the bright shining sun that shines on everyone. The moon can be seen clearly, it’s not shining upon you. The moon rather stays to itself, it doesn’t get in your eyes, you can’t feel it on your skin.

Tim Allerton and his mother have an extremely co-dependent relationship, which is highlighted by the fact that they live together and vacation together. Mrs. Allerton is the more co-dependent of the two because she get jealous when Tim shows more attention to other women. From an outside perspective, Tim seems unaware of how close he is with his mother as if he doesn’t know how odd it may be.

Linnet Ridgeway is a wealthy young woman who other characters describe as having it all, from money, to looks, and even brains. She has golden blonde hair and is described as having straight autocratic features. Linnet purchased the Wode estate in a town outside of London called Malton-under-Wode. The previous owner was Sir George who had to sell the estate after going bankrupt. She plans to spend thousands of dollars rebuilding the estate into a hotel, adding swimming pools, Italian gardens, and a ballroom. So far, some of her characteristics seem to be generous and trusting. She shares with her friend Joanna, and has tried to help her friend Jackie with money in the past though she denied. She defends Jackie when Joanna insists that Jackie wants something from her. At first she seems to be a nice person, however I feel that she was eager to boast her wealth in front of Joanna. Later my perception of Linnet changes as she refers to her mansion that costs a fortune as her new toy. Not to mention she ends up marrying Jackie’s fiancé, so she turns out to be not a very good person contrary to prior belief.

In Agatha Christie’s “death on the Nile” Rosalie Robson is a young woman who is currently unwed, at first based on her interactions with Poirot or I was under the impression that she was married to him but was upset at the fact she wasn’t married to a younger man. Still, instead of an old man, this line of thought was put to rest after her jealousy towards linnet’s marriage is shown and her outburst about how much she hates linnet. Rosalie has a strained relationship with her mother this is shown when Rosalie has no emotion on her face while giving her mother something to drink and also when her mother says to Poirot that Rosalie should have some idea about her health insinuating she hasn’t informed her daughter about her deteriorating health.

“Death on the Nile” starts off by taking place in Malton-Under-Wode which is a fictional place in a country village of England. The reason the story takes place here and why our main character, Linnet Ridgeway, is here is because she purchased the estate of the late Sir George Wode. There are many changes in setting, even as far as going to New York and this is to introduce new characters that become important to the story later on. Eventually, the story largely takes place in southern Egypt. So far, the story is mainly in this country village in order to introduce characters that become very important, such as Simon, Jackie, and Poirot.

In the mystery novel, “Death of the Nile” by Agatha Christie, there are two characters, Mrs. Otterbourne and her daughter Rosalie. Mrs. Otterbourne brought along with her daughter to an excursion to Egypt because she had grown tired of staying in Jerusalem. She has always wanted to move to Egypt because she believed that the Egyptian custom is more “fashionable.” Both of them are rich and wear brilliant clothing to show that. Rosalie is shown to have a bit of a bad temper with the huge frown of hers when staying in the hotel. She became self-aware when she questions whether she is conceitful towards Hercule Poirot.