Collins, London, 1938
Dodd Mead, New York, 1938
To Richard and Myra Mallock
to remind them of their journey to Petra
(from HarperCollins "The Agatha Christie Collection" cover)
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, Hercules Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: 'You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?' Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met ...
Emily Boynton, Lennox Boynton, Nadine Boynton, Raymond Boynton, Carol Boynton, Ginevra Boynton, Jefferson Cope, Dr.Sarah King, Lady Westholme, Colonel Carbury, Hercule Poirot
| MRS BOYNTON | Mary Clare |
| GINEVRA BOYNTON | Deryn Kerbey |
| LENNOX BOYNTON | Ian Labbock |
| NADINE BOYNTON | Beryl Machin |
| LIFT BOY | John Clennon |
| AFDERMAN HIGGS | Percy Walsh |
| CLEARK | Anthony Dorset |
| BEDOUIN | |
| LADY WESTHOLME | Janet Burnell |
| MISS PRYCE | Joan Hickson |
| DR GERARD | Gerard Hinze |
| SARAH KING | Carla Lehmann |
| JEFFERSON COPE | Alan Sedgwick |
| RAYMOND BOYNTON | John Wynn |
| DRAGOMAN | Harold Berens |
| COLONEL CARBERY | Owen Reynolds |
| LADY VISITOR | Cherry Herbert |
| HOTEL VISITOR | Corinne Whitehouse, Joseph Blanehard |