Agatha Christie’s 1946 play, based on her 1937, novel is comfortably ensconced in a neat paddle steamer observation saloon,  circa 1949, bathed in atmospheric light and surrounded howling jackals, screeching seagulls and native drums.

 The usual suspects rapidly board these comfortable surroundings, each hounded by an annoying native beadseller (Whitney Williams) and presided over by the omnipresent silent, servile steward (Bryan Hughes).   The ship’s captain McNaught (Larry Eoff) worries over the mayhem happening on his cruise ship.

 The passengers' social standing is categorized by Miss ffoliot-ffoulkes (Sharon Burum) for her put upon accompanying niece Christine (Rachel Hadlock). There's the young dissident, social iconoclast Smith (Sean Lindley), the "foreigner" Dr. Bessner (Mike Hile) , the formerly impoverished Simon (Desmond Jones), who recently ditched equally insolvent Jacqueline de Severac (L. D. Wilson) to marry the rich, glamorous socialite Kay Mostyn (Alisabeth Lindley), accompanied by her French maid, Louise (Mellisa Kirby), and the coincidental presence of her godfather, Canon Pennefeather (Tom Dealy) who nicely sponges off his ward. The Canon has seen Simon and Jackie together before as a happy couple. Now the pistol packing Jackie had been hounding the newlyweds on their honeymoon, bent for revenge. 

 Hmmmmmm. Something bad will happen and shortly does. Simon is wounded by

Jackie in a jealous rage, then, moments later, Kay is mysteriously murdered in bed. The maid, who didn't take her poisoned chamomile tea, is about to reveal the murderer when she is shot. Who did it and why???  The mystery will be unraveled before the Egyptian police arrive (B.R. Reddy).