Parker Pyne investigates

There comes a time when a master detective needs to get away from it all. 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 Pharaons, where among a respectable company of English nobleman a helpless woman is given her daily dose of death...