Agatha Christie's audacious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman's throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses...and no corpse.

在线阅读本书 Hercule Poirot’s relaxing holiday on the Cornish coast takes an unexpected turn when he meets young and pretty Nick Buckley. For it seems to Poirot that too many accidents have been happening to Nick and he, with the help of Captain Hastings, is determined to prevent another accident becoming a tragedy. But even hiding Nick away in a nursing home does not prevent another attempt on Nick’s life and Poirot has to resort to subterfuge and cunning to solve this tricky case.

A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice...The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now -- in the words of the rhyme -- can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?

年輕護士艾蜜。雷瑟蘭受聘隨同寇西上校夫婦前往巴格達，專門照顧上校的初生嬰兒。不過後來計劃生變，上校夫婦必須回國，年輕護士又突然接下另一樁任務，為一位考古學家連納博士照顧他精神不穩定的妻子。並且隨行遠至底格里斯河的亞瑞米亞古墓。 連納夫人對艾蜜信任有加，常告訴她許多早年的經歷，特別是她與第一任丈夫──一位德國間諜──的那段生活。艾蜜除了吸收不少這類似真似假的故事外，也常覺帳篷中有外怪事發生。不過她覺得那大都是連納夫人大驚小怪所致。 然而，事實並非如此，連納夫人的神經質並非無中生有--因為有一天下午，她就被人發現橫屍在床邊，顯見是從床上起來時，太陽穴受重擊後倒地身亡。 兇手是誰?唯一可確定的是，此人一定是考古隊的成員，因為方圓百里之內再無其他人等。 如何做案的?無解，因為屋內紋絲未亂，門窗緊閉，而且也沒有可讓兇手藏身之處。 令兇手扼腕的是，白羅竟不遠千里拔涉荒漠觀光來也。且看白羅如何和這些智力高超的考古學者周旋鬥智，終至破解謎案！

在「走私者之島」上羅傑飯店的眾多旅客之中，妖嬈美豔、緋聞不斷的馬歇爾夫人阿倫娜是眾人注目的焦點，她與年輕英俊且已婚的雷德佛明目張膽地出雙入對，讓丈夫馬歇爾憤怒不已，令雷德佛夫人情難以堪，而看在眼裏的其他旅客更是不恥其放浪行徑。 然而，悲劇終於發生了，在一個豔陽高照的正午，於匹克斯洞前的海岸邊，有人發現了阿倫娜橫陳的屍體，此事震驚了整座小島。適逢在飯店中度假的白羅立刻加入了追兇的行列。警方一一盤查過相關人等後，研判阿倫娜可能是遭受某個嫉妒的情人所殺；但亦有人透露在案發前晚聽到阿倫娜被人勒索；緊接著，死亡現場又搜查到暗藏的毒品海洛因，種種證據浮出檯面，使得案情更加複雜難辨。 經白羅深入調查，熟識阿倫娜的同行旅客，人人都有殺人動機，卻又個個都有不在場證明--這是否表示，阿倫娜是死於外來客之手？抑或因目擊毒品交易而遭人滅口？甚或是命運頒佈的譴責令?陷入膠著的白羅，隱隱感覺到，在這燦漫亮麗的豔陽俯身照下，有一股邪惡的慾望暗潮正在鼓動洶湧……