Delicious Death

UK

Collins, London, Nov. 1937

US

Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1938

The Saturady Evening Post, May.15-Jul.3 1937

Plot

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything ... until she lost her life.
Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier out-burst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger'. Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed.

Characters

Hercule Poirot • Linnet Ridgeway • Simon Doyle • Jacqueline de Bellefort • Mrs Allerton • Tim Allerton • Mrs Otterbourne • Rosalie Otterbourne • Miss Van Shuyler • Cornelia • Pennington • Colonel Race

Murder on the Nile (play)

Full Length Play / Drama(Mystery/Thriller) / More than 120 minutes
at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, on March 19, 1946
with the title "Hidden Horizon", at the Plymouth Theatre, New York, on September 19, 1946
Published from Samuel French, 1948

Presented by Peter Saunders at the Savoy Theatre, London, on 14th December 1954, with the following cast of characters:

Characters

1st Beadseller, 2nd Beadseller, Steward, Miss ffoliot-ffoulkes, Chrstina Grant, Smith, Louise, Dr Bessner, Kay Mostyn, Simon Mostyn, Canon Pennefather, Jacqueline de Severac, McNaught

Synopsis of scenes

The scene is laid throughout in the observation saloon of the paddle steamer Lotus on the Nile between Shellal and Wadi Halfa.

Act I

At Shellal. Late afternoon.

Act II.

Scene 1. By the Temple of Abu Simbel. Three days later. Evening, after dinner.

Scene 2. The same. Five minutes later.

Act III

The same. The next morning.

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