Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (US - Apr. 1974), then in Ellery Queen's Anthology #38 (Fall/Winter 1979). Reprinted in the collection and in the collection .
Rand goes to a newly opened resort in Egypt called the End of the Rainbow to investigate an archeology professor suspected of being a former Russian agent. He is reunited with Leila Gaad but their time together is ruined when the former agent is murdered.