LIVING A LIFE IN BOOKS: HOLIDAYS

I have had some wonderful holidays in my life, and yet I am secretly always longing to jump into my favourite books and share a holiday there. I once wrote a post about a destination resort with the title There may be murderers, but no riff raff which pretty much sums it up, right? Can you work out which trip-based book that was without checking? I’m looking at these particular choices - not quite all based on crime books, but let's start with one of the best: 1) A cruise on the Nile. Yes, even if the Richest Woman in England, Linnet Doyle, is going to be murdered, I want to be on the SS Karnak in Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. I even know which table I shall sit at in the dining-room: I want to be with Mrs Allerton for meals. I love so much the early scene in which she is looking round the dining room and identifying the other guests, matching them with her list, discussing people's clothes. I would have been her perfect companion in this and in all future chat sessions.the…