On the evenng of the murder, Pennington plays bridge with Linnet, Simon, and Colonel Race in the saloon. This annoys Pennington, and he suggests that she sign the rest of the documents some other time. Mr Fanthorp compliments Linnet on her businesslike capacity, saying that never to sign a document before reading it is admirable. Linnet reads each document before signing it, saying that her father taught her that. Pennington asks Linnet to sign a few documents.

While on the cruise up the Nile on the Karnak, Pennington occupies a cabin de luxe with a bathroom, on the port side, next to that occupied by Dr Bessner. Linnet and Simon believed that Pennington left New York on the Carmanic two days before Linnet's letter arrived telling him of their marriage, and so he knew nothing about it until he met them. Pennington goes to Egypt, and succesfully stages the chance encounter with Linnet and Simon in Cairo. Rockford tells Pennington to go, as he has 'always made a hit with Linnet'. Pennington and Rockford discuss this letter, and plan for one of them to go to Egypt, and stage a chance meeting with Linnet. Upon Melhuish Ridgeway's death, Pennington and Rockford were appointed business guardians and trustees for Linnet, along with two other people, who had passed away before the events of the novel.Īt the beginning of the novel, Pennington receives a letter from Linnet, telling him of her marriage to Simon Doyle, and of their plans to go to Egypt for their honeymoon. He spoke of remembering Linnet as 'the cutest little thing you can imagine', and of how proud her father was of her. Pennington had been a friend of Linnet's father Melhuish Ridgeway, and had known Linnet since she was a child. Like his partner Sterndale Rockford, Pennington is 'tall, spare, with greying hair', and a 'clean-shaven, clever' face. In the novel Death on the Nile, Andrew Pennington is a trustee (together with Sterndale Rockford) of Linnet Doyle. Actor George Kennedy as Andrew Pennington

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