A novel of anger jealousy betrayal & murder in 2000 BC 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 & 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 & exhaustive research she wrote this serial killer mystery laid in Egypt 4000 years ago