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Signor Richetti is a slightly overweight, middle-aged Italian archaeologist that Poirot meets on an excursion near the hotel (which Ferguson also came on). He gets extremely angry at Linnet when she opens a telegram addressed to him by mistake (since she accidentally read “Richetti” as “Ridgeway”). Simon later reveals that the telegram mostly sounded like nonsense to him, that it was all about vegetables. Colonel Race, however, immediately recognizes this language as code and realizes that Richetti must be the political agitator that he’s been on the Karnak searching for. The novels portrayal of Richetti as a “hotheaded” Italian can be criticized as an example of its use of stereotypes in drawing its characters.
Signor Richetti Quotes in Death on the Nile
The Death on the Nile quotes below are all either spoken by Signor Richetti or refer to Signor Richetti. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Eleven
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“A telegram for me.”
She snatched it off the board and tore it open.
“Why—I don’t understand—potatoes, beetroots—what does it mean, Simon?"
Simon was just coming to look over her shoulder when a furious voice said: “Excuse me, that telegram is for me,” and Signor Richetti snatched it rudely from her hand, fixing her with a furious glare as he did so.
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Chapter Nineteen
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“People think I’m awful. Stuck-up and cross and bad-tempered. I can’t help it. I’ve forgotten how to be-to be nice.”
“That is what I said to you; you have carried your burden by yourself too long.”
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Signor Richetti Quotes in Death on the Nile
The Death on the Nile quotes below are all either spoken by Signor Richetti or refer to Signor Richetti. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter Eleven
Quotes
“A telegram for me.”
She snatched it off the board and tore it open.
“Why—I don’t understand—potatoes, beetroots—what does it mean, Simon?"
Simon was just coming to look over her shoulder when a furious voice said: “Excuse me, that telegram is for me,” and Signor Richetti snatched it rudely from her hand, fixing her with a furious glare as he did so.
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Chapter Nineteen
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“People think I’m awful. Stuck-up and cross and bad-tempered. I can’t help it. I’ve forgotten how to be-to be nice.”
“That is what I said to you; you have carried your burden by yourself too long.”
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