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Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. Mrs. Boynton was a sadistic, domineering tyrant who is widely disliked by most people who have come in contact with her. Almost anyone might have had motive to kill her! But in Jerusalem, Hercule Poirot overheard Raymond Boynton telling his sister: "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" Is it safe to assume that Raymond was talking about his stepmother? Hercule Poirot has only twenty-four hours to solve the case, yet at this time, he's not even able to prove that Mrs. Boynton's death was murder.