There comes a time when a master detective needs to get away from it all. But for Mr. Parker Pyne, it was not to be. Crime followed him like a shadow from the moment he took his seat on the Orient Express. The shrieks he heard were unmistakably those of terror-a terror that would strike again and again...in the mysterious ruins of Petra...in the ancient city of Baghdad...and amid the tombs of the Pharaohs, where among a respectable company of English noblemen a helpless woman is given her daily does of death ...

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