Last night, Rob and I rented Death on the Nile, which is probably the best of the Agatha Christie movies. I figured out who the killer was before Inspector Poirot gathered the surviving suspects, and I also figured out a valuable life lesson. Since it’s not every day a movie can illuminate a valuable life lesson, I thought I’d share my revelation:

If you ever find yourself on a steamboat upon which every other passenger but one is not only connected to you in some way but actually has a motive to kill you, and if that last passenger is an internationally famous detective . . . abandon ship! You are doomed!

Unfortunately, some of us have to learn valuable life lessons the hard way.