Appointment with Death

Author: Christie, Agatha

Classic crime

Published on 8 September 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers (HarperCollins) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Poirot' series.

All wish her deadWho succeeded?

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…