Linnet Doyle

"Simon was mine and he loved me, then she came along and... sometimes, I just want to put this gun right against her head, and ever so gently, pull the trigger. When I hear that sound more and more..."

- Jacqueline de Bellefort to Poirot, on the terms of Linnet (in 1978 film)

Linnet Doyle, née Ridgeway, is the first victim of Death on the Nile, a Hercule Poirot novel written by Agatha Christie. She is the former best friend of Jacqueline de Bellefort and the wife of Simon Doyle, whom she intentionally stolen from Jacqueline and broke their friendship apart.

Although initially presented as a victim of the story, Linnet is actually considered as a villainous victim, like many other victims in Agatha Christie's works that are even worse and more despicable than their killers.

Vainglorious, spoiled and decieving, Linnet betrayed the friendship between her and her best friend, Jacqueline de Bellefort, by stealing Jacqueline's lover Simon Doyle for herself, fueling both Jacqueline and Simon's motive into killing her for revenge and her money.

Alongside her maid Louise Bourget, Linnet is one of the two unsympathetic victims of Death on the Nile.

Portrayal

 * In the 1978 film adaptaion of Death on the Nile, Linnet was portrayed by Lois Chiles in the 1978 film adaptation.
 * In the 2004 TV episode adaptation of the novel, featured in Agatha Christie's Poirot, she was portrayed by Emily Blunt, who also voiced Tempest Shadow in My Little Pony: The Movie and played Freya in The Huntsman: A Winter's Tale.
 * In the upcoming 2020 film adaptation, she will be portrayed by Gal Gadot, who also portrayed Gisele Yashar in Fast & Furious franchise.