At the request of archaeologist Dr. Eric Leidner, Amy Leatheran has accepted a position as companion to his wife, Louise, a woman prone to "nervous terrors"--and in need of a confidante. She's found one in Amy. But what is the young nurse to make of Mrs. Leidner's bizarre stories of her first husband, a dead German spy, who has returned in a rage to destroy her new marriage? Stories of terrible threats and dreadful warnings? Stories that everyone attributes to a vivid--and disturbed--imagination? Yet it's more than a flight of fancy that bludgeons poor Mrs.Leidner to death. And it's going to take the brilliant imagination of Hercule Poirot to unravel the strange facts in a dead woman's fantasy.

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At the request of archaeologist Dr. Eric Leidner, Amy Leatheran has accepted a position as companion to his wife, Louise, a woman prone to "nervous terrors"--and in need of a confidante. She"s found one in Amy. But what is the young nurse to make of Mrs. Leidner"s bizarre stories of her first husband, a dead German spy, who has returned in a rage to destroy her new marriage? Stories of terrible threats and dreadful warnings? Stories that everyone attributes to a vivid--and disturbed--imagination? Yet it"s more than a flight of fancy that bludgeons poor Mrs.Leidner to death. And it"s going to take the brilliant imagination of Hercule Poirot to unravel the strange facts in a dead woman"s fantasy.

Foreword by Giles Reilly, M.D.

Foreword

Introducing Amy Leatheran

Gossip

I Arrive in Hassanieh

Tell Yarimjah

First Evening

The Man at the Window

Night Alarm

Mrs. Leidner"s Story

Saturday Afternoon

An Odd Business

"I Didn"t Believe..."

Hercule Poirot Arrives

One of Us?

Poirot Makes a Suggestion

The Suspects

The Stain by the Wash-stand

Tea at Dr. Reilly"s

A New Suspicion

Miss Johnson, Mrs. Mercado,

  Mr. Reiter

Mr. Mercado, Richard Carey

David Emmott, Father Lavigny

  and a Discovery

I Go Psychic

Murder Is a Habit

Suicide or Murder?

Next It Will Be Me!

Beginning of a Journey

Journey"s End

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