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

Contents:

• Meeting Parker Pyne
• The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife
• The Case of the Discontented Soldier
• The Case of the Distressed Lady
• The Case of the Discontented Husband
• The Case of the City Clerk
• The Case of the Rich Woman
• Have You Got Everything You Want?
• The Gate of Baghdad
• The House at Shiraz
• The Pearl of Price
• Death on the Nile
• The Oracle at Delphi