Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
All wish her dead
Who 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…
Agatha Christie’s book ‘Marple’ was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 12-09-2022.