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Original Title:	Appointment with Death
ISBN:	0007119356 (ISBN13: 9780007119356)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Hercule Poirot #19
Characters:	Sarah King, Mrs. Boynton, Colonel Carbury, Raymond Boynton, Lady Westholme, Carol Boynton, Lennox Boynton, Miss Pierce, Ginevra Boynton, Nadine Boynton, Hercule Poirot
Setting:	Jerusalem(Israel) Petra(Jordan)

Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot #19) Paperback | Pages: 303 pages

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Title	:	Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot #19)
Author	:	Agatha Christie
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 303 pages
Published	:	2001 by HarperCollins (first published May 2nd 1938)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Classics

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Among the towering red cliffs of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs Boynton, a tiny puncture mark on her wrist the only sign of what has killed her. Hercule Poirot has only 24 hours to solve the mystery.

A tyrannical old martinet, a mental sadist and the incarnation of evil. These were only three of the character descriptions levelled at Mrs. Boynton, the matriarch who kept her family totally dependent on her. But did she really deserve to die on the excursion to beautiful Petra? Hercule Poirot hears about the murder and feels compelled to investigate-despite the family's request not to do so. Do they have something to hide and, if so, can they keep it hidden from this master sleuth?

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Glad you enjoyed, Cherie! A fine review!

Review to follow tomorrow 😉Ok, ok, it was more than just a day till I got around to writing my review, mea culpa.After a year of reading all the Miss Marple books, this is now the 21st month of the Poirot Buddy read Challenge (organised and led by Jessica, thank you) and is still proving amazingly enjoyable and not at all repetitive, which just goes to show what a good writer Ms Christie was and how different (in general) are all of her books. This was an interesting book, that yet again I

You are a detective, are you not?Yes, mademoiselle.A very well-known detective?The very best detective in the world, said Poirot, stating it as a simple truth, no more, no less. The best opening to an AC mystery for me yet:"You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" Poirot overhears a brother try to persuade his sister to kill their tyrannical and sadistic and morbidly obese mother, and why not?! We quickly learn that even if you are a complete pacifist that you might see why it is the

Hercule Poirot and Agatha Christie + Mystery = reader delight and his highlights that point!

This is definitely not Agatha Christie's best work.

Feels like Dame Agatha was experimenting with new techniques, namely, how long will the readers wait before letting Hercule come in and solve the story? And of course, a little like Murder on the Orient Express, it's a murder that no one really wants solved. Yet, enter he does, and solves the crime using the techniques of the mind--although he admits he lacks proof. Come to think of it, I don't think he referred to "the little grey cells," alas. While not her best, I nonetheless enjoy the

First book of the year and... I don't have much to report, interpret, gauge, or infer. This is the first time I've read it in English. Before that I read it when in my teens, in French. The latter translation was superb. The translator, Louis Postif, was a genius.Returning to this book, it does not lend itself very well to a reread. The first time I was impressionable. I wasn't impressed by Poirot this time around.There was no determining proof of guilt in this case. Only the flimsiest trace of