Number of pages: 347 pages
investigation novel by Agatha Christie; First published in the United Kingdom by Collins Crime Club on 6 July 1936 and in the United States by Dodd and Mead later that same year. The novel features the character Hercule Poirot. The events of the novel take place in an archaeological area in Iraq, and the author relied on the descriptions in the novel on her trip to Iraq, where she met her second husband, Max Mallowan, and several British archaeologists.