Agatha Christie Series

Agatha Christie, in London to visit her agent, boards a train preoccupied with the knowledge that her husband Archie is having an affair. She feels a touch on her back, loses her balance but is pulled to safety from the rush of the incoming train. So begins a sequence of terrifying events. Her rescuer is no guardian angel but a blackmailer, and Agatha must use every ounce of her cleverness to thwart an adversary determined to exploit her genius for murder to kill on his behalf.

In January 1927 - still recovering from the harrowing circumstances surrounding her disappearance a month earlier - Agatha Christie sets sail for the Canary Islands, tasked by the British Secret Intelligence Service with investigating the death of one of its agents, whose partly mummified body was found in a cave. One morning, Agatha witnesses a woman throw herself from the ship into the sea. Initially, nobody connects the murder of the young man on Tenerife with the suicide of a mentally unstable heiress. But Agatha soon uncovers some dark secrets.

1928. Agatha Christie leaves England for Baghdad, where two years ago, explorer and writer Gertrude Bell died from a drugs overdose. The authorities believed that Bell had taken her own life, but a letter now unearthed reveals she was afraid someone wanted to kill her. Bell writes that if she were to die, the best place to look for her murderer would be Ur, an archaeological site in Mesopotamia. Looking into Bell's death, Agatha discovers the mission is not without risk. She must use all her skills to try to outwit a killer who hides among the desert sands....