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...