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Nurse Amy Leatheran had never felt the lure of the “mysterious East,” but she nonetheless accepts an assignment at Hassanieh, an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert, to care for the wife of a celebrated archaeologist. Mrs Leidner is suffering bizarre visions and nervous terror.  She receives anonymous letters from her first husbend who was supposed to be long ago. “I’m afraid of being killed!” she admits to her nurse. Her terror, unfortunately, is anything but unfounded, and Nurse Leatheran is soon enough without a patient. Mrs Leidner was  murdered in her bed, hit on the head with a heavy object . The world’s greatest detective happens to be in the vicinity, however: having concluded an assignment in Syria, and curious about the dig at Hassanieh, Hercule Poirot arrives in time to lead a murder investigation that will tax even his remarkable powers–and in a part of the world that has seen more than its share of misadventure and foul play. Poitor suspects that it is an inside job and one of the 8 peoples present at the dig is in fact the murderer. While investigation was on one more person becomes victim of the murderer. This time the murder was committed with acid subsittuted for drinking water. “Murder is a habit” was the conclusion drawn by the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. He corrctly identifies the killer at the end.
Set in an archeological site in Iraqi desert, the book has lots of twists making the reader sit on the edge till the last page. Read this book if you are in for real thrils.

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