Appointment With Death — Agatha Christie

You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?"

Ominous words for Hercule Poirot to overhear on his first night of vacation in the Holy Land. They come true when a tourist is murdered in full view of her fellow sightseers. And not surprising. The "horror of a woman" was loathed not only by her own children, but by every stranger who crossed her path. Who wanted to do the harridan in? Who didn't? At the Solomon Hotel, sympathy is with the killer. But Poirot has a job to do--and with this many suspects, and this many motives, deduction will take a miracle.