Appointment With Death

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...