PublishedHarper Collins, January 2001 |
ISBN9780007119356 |
FormatSoftcover, 304 pages |
Dimensions17.8cm × 11.1cm × 1.9cm |
A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra...
Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her.
With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: `You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?' Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met...
