Death on the Nile (play)

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Death on the Nile (play) is a stage adaptation of Agatha Christie's famous Hercule Poirot murder mystery set aboard a Nile River cruise.

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instanceOf stage play
associatedWithAuthor Agatha Christie NERFINISHED
authorOfOriginalNovel Agatha Christie NERFINISHED
basedOn Death on the Nile (novel) NERFINISHED
basedOnWorkBy Agatha Christie NERFINISHED
chronologyRelativeToNovel adaptation of a 1937 novel
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresCharacter Colonel Race NERFINISHED
Cornelia Robson NERFINISHED
Dr. Bessner NERFINISHED
Jacqueline de Bellefort NERFINISHED
Linnet Ridgeway NERFINISHED
Miss Van Schuyler NERFINISHED
Mrs. Allerton NERFINISHED
Mrs. Otterbourne NERFINISHED
Pennington NERFINISHED
Rosalie Otterbourne NERFINISHED
Simon Doyle NERFINISHED
Tim Allerton NERFINISHED
featuresElement ensemble cast of suspects
interrogation scenes
revelation of the murderer in a climactic scene
genre crime drama
murder mystery
hasForm dialogue-driven drama
hasMedium live theatre
language English
literarySourceGenre detective fiction
mainCharacter Hercule Poirot NERFINISHED
narrativeDevice closed-circle mystery on a confined setting
narrativeFocus investigation of a murder aboard a Nile cruise
originalNovelProtagonist Hercule Poirot GENERATED
originalNovelPublicationYear 1937 GENERATED
originalNovelPublisher Collins Crime Club GENERATED
originalNovelSetting 1930s Egypt GENERATED
partOfFranchise Hercule Poirot series NERFINISHED
protagonist Hercule Poirot NERFINISHED
protagonistRole Belgian detective
setting Egypt NERFINISHED
Nile River cruise ship
theme greed
jealousy
love triangle
premeditated murder

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Death on the Nile (novel) hasAdaptation Death on the Nile (play)
subject surface form: Death on the Nile