Appointment With Death | Agatha Christie | Book Review | Hercule Poirot Mystery 19
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie is the nineteenth Hercule Poirot mystery book. It takes the readers to the middle East where a baffling murder of matriarch of a family requires Hercule Poirot’s “little grey cells” to solve this most ingenious mystery. So read the book summary, book quotes, similar book recommendations, publication date, genre, and book review of Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie in this post below.
About Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie:
No. of Pages: 303
Publication Date: May 2nd 1938
Genre: Classics, Mystery, Crime Fiction
Reading Age: 15 and above
Series: Hercule Poirot Book 19
Can be read as a standalone? YES
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Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie Book Summary:
Mrs. Boynton, although an invalid, is a controlling type of woman. So, she has such a hold over her family that if she tells them to do something, they do it with no questions asked.
Her family comprises of her son Lennox, his wife Nadine, the twins Carol and Raymond and finally their smallest sibling Ginny. Though only Ginny is her real daughter while Lennox, Carol and Raymond are her step children.
On a trip to the middle east, the family is anything but enjoying. So, the Boyntons are on edge and nervous with their mother controlling them like puppets.
What a horror of a woman!” Old, swollen, bloated, sitting there immovable in the midsts of them – a distorted old Buddha – a gross spider in the center of a web!
Financially dependent on their mother and socially secluded, the Boyntons have no choice but to obey her. And although free, they are still forced to live in captivity where each movement and every aspect of life is controlled by her!
So when one day in Petra, Mrs Boynton is found dead with a mysterious puncture mark on her wrist, everyone feels relieved with no sorrow in their hearts. A known heart patient, her death is attributed to her weak heart with no suspicion of any foul play.
Enter Hercule Poirot…
Nevertheless, Hercule Poirot who is visiting Colonel Carbury is asked to investigate the death as he feels that the family is hiding something!
Thus, Hercule Poirot with “the egg-shaped head, the gigantic moustaches, the dandyfied appearance and the suspicious blackness of his hair“ starts on the quest of a murderer (if there has been a murder). This murderer is sure of getting away. Poirot has to solve the mystery of the guilty looks and almost too clean witness descriptions of the time leading up to her death.
But has there been a murder or is it true that Mrs Boynton died a natural death?
To find the answer to the above question Poirot must first understand the psychology of each person involved who all have every reason to wish Mrs Boynton dead but no hint of having a hand in her murder?
Will Poirot succeed or is Colonel Carbury right that there is no chance of success even when Poirot is sure of it?
I am gifted…. I know my own ability.”
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie Book Review:
You do see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?”
The question floated out into the still night air, seemed to hang there a moment and then drift away down into the darkness towards the Dead Sea.
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