In fact, a normal murderer would rather kill the rich woman with a single shot than devise so many tricks, because the danger is really dangerous!
He has to count the time, make sure that he picks up the gun, takes off his shoes (and shoelaces), runs, kills, writes, goes back, changes bullets, hits himself, packs the gun (and knots the baggage), throws the murder weapon, etc. Within five minutes-how calm and sensible he has to deal with all this, and still on board-a relatively open space where anyone can see him-and it is true.
In that case, he might as well coax his wife to sleep, wrap the gun in a cloth and crash her and then go to the deck to let the lover cooperate and mess up that lady's time concept to create an alibi is much simpler-after all, everyone has it. Opportunity is more credible than having no chance alone-at least in the logic of novels and movies.
So the book says that couple criminals have two guns, so at least the time for changing bullets can be saved.
Fortunately, this film older than me did keep the suspense to the end, and it was much more faithful than current remakes.
By the way, remember the hapless terrorists in the book, liar archaeologists, and all kinds of people who sacrificed to the needs of the compact plot.
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