As she sat in the grandeur of her room in the Winter Palace Hotel, Wirral solicitor Cheryl Lewis should have had no cause to worry.
Cheryl, 43, was on holiday with her long-time partner John Allan. She was drinking a night cap - a gin and tonic - in the British colonial-era hotel, which stands on the banks of the River Nile in Luxor, Egypt.
It was on a stay at the hotel that Agatha Christie wrote her 1937 crime classic 'Death on the Nile'. Over half a century after the murder mystery novel's publication, the hotel became the site of a real-life killing.