Appointment with Death (Poirot)

Agatha Christie

Oct 2010 · HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra...

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her.

With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem: ‘You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’ Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he’d ever met...

Ratings and reviews

The feeling of unease, want for freedom, unpleasantness create a beautiful atmosphere for a pre-planned murder. Each of the Boynton family is a pretty good suspect and you feel someone in the family is the murderer but in the end..... Tables are turned. Poirot completes this case beautifully. Good book.

Quite frankly, brilliant. Great study for psychology students

Excellent book with a neat plotting

About the author

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.