OLT is on a three-play talent roll. The trained eye finds professional acumen in Murder on the Nile: Terence Artz did a fine job of blocking in a difficult space, and the show is entirely of a tone. Allison Gerst's costumes are as spot-on as any in the more upscale, professional houses downtown. Even details as seemingly mundane as a painted floor or period magazines hold up under close inspection; Artz had to remind certain audience members not to sneak draughts of prop "cocktails." On the performing side, Hannah Broom displays a deep understanding of early 20th-century stage acting, Tim Shute possesses Huckabeean stolidity as a Hercule Poirot stand-in, and Cassie Cahill finds the giddy fun in pretentious snobbery (I can relate).

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[Olympia Little Theatre, through May 2, 7:55 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 1:55 p.m. Sunday, $8-$12, 1925 Miller Ave. NE, Olympia, 360.786.9484]