Our mystery-writer protagonist, Ethelred Tressider, has booked himself a Nile cruise as a ‘research trip’ for his next novel. As he and his on again/off again girlfriend, Lady Anabelle, are in an off period, Ethelred’s cantankerous editor, Elsie Thirkettle, generously offers to take the second cabin he has booked (Anabelle was very particular about needing her own space). Despite not being the sharpest knife in the block, Ethelred soon realizes that something strange is afoot on their Nile cruise, not least that a) Anabelle has […]