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APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH

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 *  Hercule Poirot
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 *  1937



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.

> They have been in prison so long that if the prison door stands open they
> would no longer notice!
> 
> Dr Gerard, Appointment With Death


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When the corpse of Mrs Boynton is found among the cliffs of Petra, Hercule
Poirot remembers the words of one of her step-children: “You do see, don’t you,
that she’s got to be killed?” In true form, Poirot gives himself 24 hours to
solve the case.

One of Agatha Christie’s many stories inspired by her travels in the Middle
East, this one also shows a different side of Poirot. In fact when the story
first appeared, serialised in the Daily Mail in 1938 under the title A Date with
Death, Agatha Christie preceded it with an original piece on her relationship
with her detective and how she came to create him. She also described Poirot’s
key interests in this particular case: the “passion for truth” of the man who
asked him to undertake the case; the technicality of the 24-hour limit; and the
psychology of the motive, particularly “the strong malign personality of the
dead woman”.

> Twice as brilliant as Death on the Nile, which was entirely brilliant.
> The Observer

It was published as a novel by Collins in May 1938 and would go on to be adapted
several times. The first was in 1945 when Agatha Christie adapted it herself for
stage. Christie kept the title, Appointment With Death, but removed the
character of Poirot and changed the identity of the murderer.


In 1988 it was adapted into a film, starring Peter Ustinov as Poirot. Twenty
years later it was adapted for TV with David Suchet playing Poirot, before being
dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 2006 starring John Moffatt as Poirot.


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