Moon on the Nile

The novel Death on the Nile started out as a play entitled Moon on the Nile. This play was never performed nor published. Subsequently, In the late 1930s Christie developed the work into her better-known novel which was published in 1937.

In the 1940s, at the behest of her actor friend Francis L. Sullivan, Christie made a stage adaptation of Death on the Nile, either by resurrecting the old play or adapting afresh from the novel. A script was completed in 1942 and was also at first entitled Moon on the Nile but was soon renamed Hidden Horizon and then Murder on the Nile.