Appointment with Death
By Agatha Christie
SP 20010825
160K
Appointment with Death is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie.
The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and reflects Christie's experiences travelling in the Middle East with her husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan.
Holidaying in Jerusalem, Poirot overhears Raymond Boynton telling his sister: "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" Their stepmother, Mrs. Boynton, is a sadistic tyrant who dominates all the younger members of her family, and who attracts the strong dislike of a group of people outside the immediate family. But when she is found dead on a trip to Petra, Hercule Poirot proposes to solve the case in twenty-four hours, even though he has no way of even proving whether it was murder.
Characters
- Hercule Poirot, the Belgian Detective
- Colonel Carbury, senior figure in Transjordania
- Mrs. Boynton, the victim
- Raymond Boynton, the victim’s stepson
- Carol Boynton, the victim’s stepdaughter
- Lennox Boynton, the victim’s stepson
- Nadine Boynton, Lennox's wife
- Jefferson Cope, a family friend
- Ginevra Boynton, the victim’s daughter
- Dr. Gerard, a French psychologist
- Sarah King, a young doctor
- Lady Westholme, a member of Parliament
- Miss Amabel Pierce, a former nursery governess
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