In the novel Death on the Nile, Under the Fig Tree is a novel written by romance novelist Salome Otterbourne and is perhaps one of her recent publications. While on the Karnak, Salome has a copy with her and she offers to give ot to Poirot.
According to the text, the dust jacket had a picture of a lady "with smartly shingled hair and scarlet fingernails, sitting on a tiger skin, in the traditional costume of Eve. Above her was a tree with the leaves of an oak, bearing large and improbably coloured apples." The publisher's blurb described the courage and realism of "this study of a modern woman's love life", calling it "Fearless, unconventional, realistic".