Based on Conan Doyle's own novel, The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898), Fires of Fate was first performed in 1909.
A group of English tourists travelling along the Nile by boat are kidnapped by locals and ultimately rescued by the Camel Corps.
Very much of its time, Arthur Conan Doyle's original work displayed a mistrust of Islam and a strong favouring of British imperialism: judging from contemporary reviews, Dion Titheradge carried those elements into this adaptation.