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Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)

Agatha Christie

Start date: September 1, 2019

Finish date: September 30, 2019

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Sep 03, 2019 Susan in NC rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: want-to-reread, christie

Another grand exotic adventure with Poirot - this time the action takes place at Petra. An elderly American woman with heart trouble is traveling with her family and is found dead; was the trip too much for her, or was it murder? Only Poirot can find out!

Christie gives us a dark story here - the old lady was a vicious tyrant, controlling her family through her wealth, to the point of psychological torture. A world-famous French psychiatrist, Dr. Gerard, and a young British doctor, Sarah King, ar ...more

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Apr 04, 2017 Nanosynergy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: reviewed, fiction, fiction-1930s, series, mysteries-thrillers-espionage, british, 2017read

Four stars for the slug-like, evil former women's prison warden, Mrs. Boynton, who made and keeps her children and daughter-in-law dysfunctional servants at her beck and call - even though most of her children are already adults. Bored with opting to control and terrorize her family in their U.S. home, she decides to enhance their misery by doing so on an international sight-seeing trip to Israel and the Middle East. She makes her family hang out only with her and prevents them from making new f ...more

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