Of course, this has me wondering who ‘she’ is, why she has to be killed and who is talking. Frowning, he shut it decisively, thereby excluding any injurious night air! Hercule Poirot had been brought up to believe that all outside air was best left outside, and that night air was especially dangerous to the health. Hercule Poirot paused a minute with his hand on the window catch. A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous. This is one of those Christie novels in which the action takes place outside of England, in the fabled city of Petra (located in contemporary Jordan). 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. In this week’s installment of The Pleasures of Poirot, I want to talk about one of my favorite mystery novels, Appointment with Death. ‘You do see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’ In 1988 it was adapted into a film, starring Peter Ustinov as Poirot. Christie kept the title, Appointment With Death, but removed the character of Poirot and changed the identity of the murderer. It’s one of the earlier Poirot books, first published in 1938. The first was in 1945 when Agatha Christie adapted it herself for stage. My choice this week is Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie, one of the few novels of hers that I haven’t read. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. Every Tuesday Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea hosts First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros, where you can share the first paragraph, or a few, of a book you are reading or thinking about reading soon. Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence.

An appointment with death poirot