There is nothing exotic about murder, no matter where it takes place. Away from home, Hercule Poirot finds that he cannot escape death, even when travelling across Mesopotamia, the Nile and Petra.

At the Hassanieh dig deep in the Iraqi desert, the wife of a celebrated archaeologist is suffering from terrifying hallucinations. Apparent madness-until a murderer strikes.

The tranquillity of a Nile cruise is shattered by the discovery that a young girl has been shot through the head. Stylish and beautiful, she had everything – even enemies.

And among the towering red cliffs of Petra sits a woman’s corpse. A tiny puncture mark her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her.

Based on Agatha Christie’s own experiences in the 1930s travelling