It is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff
lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young,
beautiful, and venomous, most agree that she deserved to die like a snake. Yet
Renisenb, the priest's daughter, believes that the woman's death was not fate,
but murder. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks
within her own father's household. As the wife of an eminent archaeologist,
Agatha Christie took part in several expeditions to the Middle East. Drawing
upon this experience and exhaustive research, she wrote this serial killer
mystery laid in Egypt 4000 years ago.