In this official authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the
great Hercule Poirot investigates suspicious events at a Middle Eastern
archaeological excavation site.
Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when
she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the
wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she could
ever have imagined. Her patient's bizarre visions and nervous terror
seem unfounded, but as the oppressive tension in the air thickens,
events come to a terrible climax--in murder.
With one spot of blood as his only clue, Hercule Poirot must embark on a
journey not just across the desert, but into the darkest crevices of the
human soul to unravel a mystery which taxes even his remarkable powers.