Matters were not helped by the lukewarm critical reaction to Appointment with Death when that play opened in March 1945. For reasons not specified in her biography, these rehearsals and the plans to stage the play appear to have suffered delays to find a London theatre to take the show, once it had been tried out in the provinces. It premiered there on 17 January at the Dundee Repertory Theatre and the title of the play had also been changed to Hidden Horizon.
Once backing had been found, rehearsals for the play began in January 1944 in Dundee in which Christie enthusiastically joined in, now that she was thoroughly enamoured of the theatre and its people. She managed to persuade Sullivan of this plan when she promised to write into the play the part of a church canon for him to play. Discussions took place until October as Christie was tired of the character of Poirot and wanted to exclude him from the drama altogether. Sullivan was looking for a play in which Hercule Poirot might feature. Once written, she decided it would do better as a book and she only resurrected the play version in 1942 when she was in the middle of writing the theatrical version of And Then There Were None and her actor friend Francis L.
The play is based on her 1937 novel Death on the Nile which in itself started off as a play which Christie called Moon on the Nile. Murder on the Nile (sometimes titled Hidden Horizon ) is a 1944 murder mystery play by crime writer Agatha Christie, based on her 1937 novel Death on the Nile. A production of the play by the Department of Theater and Dance at Otterbein University, 1985
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