This novel was very dear to Agatha Christie - perhaps more than any other. She always singled him out among the host of her works: “Here I wrote exactly as I wanted to write, and for an artist there is no pleasure higher than this”... A sudden delay on the way, a wild Arabian desert and a godforsaken hotel... Lady Joan has nothing left but how to replay your entire life in your head. And gradually she realized who she really was. I was faced with an unbearable truth that I had always suspected, but was afraid to admit...