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Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)

Agatha Christie

Start date: September 1, 2019

Finish date: September 30, 2019

Discussion: Archive: Poirot Buddy Reads

Why we're reading this: The next in our series of Poirot buddy reads.
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Sep 04, 2019 Adrian rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: detectives-challenge-hp-2018-20, det-agatha-christie, zz-paper-books

Review to follow tomorrow 😉

Ok, ok, it was more than just a day till I got around to writing my review, mea culpa.

After a year of reading all the Miss Marple books, this is now the 21st month of the Poirot Buddy read Challenge (organised and led by Jessica, thank you) and is still proving amazingly enjoyable and not at all repetitive, which just goes to show what a good writer Ms Christie was and how different (in general) are all of her books.
This was an interesting book, that yet again I didn' ...more

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Sep 10, 2018 John rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: agatha-christie

I watched the ITV adaptation and thought what a stupid ending. So I decided to read the book which was much more satisfactory. In the book Poiret comes in after the murder and questions the family. It is more a psychological drama and I also heard in the play Christie gave another alternative ending.

Mrs Boyden a horrible petty tyrant holds her family under an iron thumb and is a mental sadist. Her family are all weak willed and stay around as she holds the purse strings. The setting in Petra is ...more

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Aug 30, 2016 Gillian Kevern rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mystery, queens-of-crime, vintage, 1930s, melodramatic

Another very strong Agatha Christie! I think the victim is one of the creepiest characters Christie ever created. I remembered her--but not the solution, meaning that I was genuinely caught by surprise at the end of the story.

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Nov 21, 2020 Kara rated it liked it

Shelves: agatha-christie

Excellent quick read. Very interesting group of characters. Felt similar to The Murder on the Orient Express in the way that someone truly evil was killed. I loved the little epilogue from 5 years later. Very enjoyable book

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