Emily Boynton, the stepmother of three children, blackmails their lawyer to destroy their late father's second will, which would have freed them from her control. She takes them on a trip to Europe and the Holy Land, where Hercule Poirot encounters a woman who falls in love with Emily's son. As tensions rise, Emily is found dead, poisoned, and Poirot must investigate.
Appointment with Death
A brutal murder at an archaeological excavation in the scorching desert near the Dead Sea sets off a tangled web of deceit among the four adult children of a ruthless matriarch.
