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Appointment with Death
by Agatha Christie
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If you love to read books revolving mysterious death, love, friendship, and a certain egg-shaped head Belgian detective who uses his little grey cells to solve the mystery then this is the book for you. I would definitely recommend reading this book.
It all starts with this "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" a part of a conversation that Hercule Poirot heard on a train ride to Jerusalem. What a way to start a story.
At a hotel in Jerusalem we are treated to a conversation between Sarah King and Dr. Gerard about their observations of the Boynton family. This family consists of the matriarch Mrs. Boynton, her eldest son Lennox Boynton and his wife Nadine Boynton, Raymond Boynton, Carol Boynton, and the youngest daughter Ginerva Boynton. Both Sarah King and Dr. Gerard conclude that Mrs. Boynton is a tyrant who loves mentally torturing her family.
It was a trip to Petra where the mysterious death occurs. Sarah King and Dr. Gerard accompanied by Lady Westholme and Miss Pierce are on their way to Petra. When they arrive their Sarah King and Dr. Gerard are surprised to see the Boynton family and their family friend Mr. Jefferson Cope already at the campsite because they overheard the day before that Mrs. Boynton and her family would not be going to Petra due to Mrs. Boynton's heart condition.
It also come to a surprise to Sarah King and Dr. Gerard that Mrs. Boynton had allowed or should I say encouraged her children except the youngest to go on a walk with Mr. Cope, Sarah King, and Dr. Gerard. It was during this walk that private conversations between couples, friends, acquaintances. and soon to be couples happened. After the walk they all returned to camp and when it was time for dinner around 6:30pm they discover Mrs. Boynton was dead.
When the group got back to Jerusalem it was Dr. Gerard who informed Colonel Carbury that there might have been foul play because during the day of the murder the doctor had noticed one of his hypodermic syringe missing and the day after the murder he had noticed that one of his bottle of digitoxins had been emptied. Due to this information Colonel Carbury enlist the help of Hercule Poirot to get to bottom of this affair. Poirot accepts the case due to having placed the voice of Raymond Boynton as the person he overheard on the train saying "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?".
As Poirot conducts an interview with all the members of the Boynton family, and everyone else who was at Petra during the day of the murder. As Poirot already knows it was a murder due to the missing hypodermic syringe and the emptied bottle of digitoxin. As Poirot goes about his interview and pieces all the information he has gathered together. He came to the solution that the most of the surviving members of the Boynton family felt guilty because they all knew that their mother/mother-in-law was dead at the moment they all reached camp and they had thought they knew who the killer was and they had to protect them. Lennox who arrived first had thought that it was their youngest sister for she was the only one left at camp, Nadine was arrived after Lennox had thought it was her husband for she had seen him fix Mrs. Boynton's watch and where she found the mark of the hypodermic syringe, Carol who came after Nadine had thought it was Raymond for it was her who was the other person in the conversation, "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" and she had thought that Raymond actually killed their mother, and lastly Raymond who came back last had thought it was Carol who went through with their half baked plan. But Poirot was able to determine that it was none of the Boynton children by stating the fact that Mrs. Boynton was dead before Lennox had returned to camp and with Ginerva's state of mind that if she were to kill her own mother she would had used a knife not a hypodermic syringe. That if anyone of the Boynton's had done the did there would be no need to steal from Dr. Gerard as they already had everything they need.
It was also during these interviews that we the readers learned that Mrs. Boynton had been a prison warden. That during an early conversation between Mrs. Boynton and Sarah King that Mrs. Boynton suddenly stated "I've never forgotten anything, not an action, not a name, not a face." to someone standing behind Sarah King. Poirot puts the pieces together and concludes that the person Mrs. Boynton was talking to or directed that statement to was Lady Westholme. Lady Westholme knew that as long as Mrs. Boynton was alive that the life that she has built after prison was in grave danger. So she plotted to get rid of her only obstacle, in doing so she set the remaining Boyntons free. And as for how she did it read the book to find out.
It all starts with this "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" a part of a conversation that Hercule Poirot heard on a train ride to Jerusalem. What a way to start a story.
At a hotel in Jerusalem we are treated to a conversation between Sarah King and Dr. Gerard about their observations of the Boynton family. This family consists of the matriarch Mrs. Boynton, her eldest son Lennox Boynton and his wife Nadine Boynton, Raymond Boynton, Carol Boynton, and the youngest daughter Ginerva Boynton. Both Sarah King and Dr. Gerard conclude that Mrs. Boynton is a tyrant who loves mentally torturing her family.
It was a trip to Petra where the mysterious death occurs. Sarah King and Dr. Gerard accompanied by Lady Westholme and Miss Pierce are on their way to Petra. When they arrive their Sarah King and Dr. Gerard are surprised to see the Boynton family and their family friend Mr. Jefferson Cope already at the campsite because they overheard the day before that Mrs. Boynton and her family would not be going to Petra due to Mrs. Boynton's heart condition.
It also come to a surprise to Sarah King and Dr. Gerard that Mrs. Boynton had allowed or should I say encouraged her children except the youngest to go on a walk with Mr. Cope, Sarah King, and Dr. Gerard. It was during this walk that private conversations between couples, friends, acquaintances. and soon to be couples happened. After the walk they all returned to camp and when it was time for dinner around 6:30pm they discover Mrs. Boynton was dead.
When the group got back to Jerusalem it was Dr. Gerard who informed Colonel Carbury that there might have been foul play because during the day of the murder the doctor had noticed one of his hypodermic syringe missing and the day after the murder he had noticed that one of his bottle of digitoxins had been emptied. Due to this information Colonel Carbury enlist the help of Hercule Poirot to get to bottom of this affair. Poirot accepts the case due to having placed the voice of Raymond Boynton as the person he overheard on the train saying "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?".
As Poirot conducts an interview with all the members of the Boynton family, and everyone else who was at Petra during the day of the murder. As Poirot already knows it was a murder due to the missing hypodermic syringe and the emptied bottle of digitoxin. As Poirot goes about his interview and pieces all the information he has gathered together. He came to the solution that the most of the surviving members of the Boynton family felt guilty because they all knew that their mother/mother-in-law was dead at the moment they all reached camp and they had thought they knew who the killer was and they had to protect them. Lennox who arrived first had thought that it was their youngest sister for she was the only one left at camp, Nadine was arrived after Lennox had thought it was her husband for she had seen him fix Mrs. Boynton's watch and where she found the mark of the hypodermic syringe, Carol who came after Nadine had thought it was Raymond for it was her who was the other person in the conversation, "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" and she had thought that Raymond actually killed their mother, and lastly Raymond who came back last had thought it was Carol who went through with their half baked plan. But Poirot was able to determine that it was none of the Boynton children by stating the fact that Mrs. Boynton was dead before Lennox had returned to camp and with Ginerva's state of mind that if she were to kill her own mother she would had used a knife not a hypodermic syringe. That if anyone of the Boynton's had done the did there would be no need to steal from Dr. Gerard as they already had everything they need.
It was also during these interviews that we the readers learned that Mrs. Boynton had been a prison warden. That during an early conversation between Mrs. Boynton and Sarah King that Mrs. Boynton suddenly stated "I've never forgotten anything, not an action, not a name, not a face." to someone standing behind Sarah King. Poirot puts the pieces together and concludes that the person Mrs. Boynton was talking to or directed that statement to was Lady Westholme. Lady Westholme knew that as long as Mrs. Boynton was alive that the life that she has built after prison was in grave danger. So she plotted to get rid of her only obstacle, in doing so she set the remaining Boyntons free. And as for how she did it read the book to find out.