Appointment with Death [DeliciousDeath]

Collins, London, 1938
Dodd Mead, New York, 1938

To Richard and Myra Mallock
to remind them of their journey to Petra

Plot

(from HarperCollins "The Agatha Christie Collection" cover)

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, Hercules Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: 'You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?' Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met ...

Characters

Emily Boynton, Lennox Boynton, Nadine Boynton, Raymond Boynton, Carol Boynton, Ginevra Boynton, Jefferson Cope, Dr.Sarah King, Lady Westholme, Colonel Carbury, Hercule Poirot

Play

Appointment with Death

dramatised by Agatha Christie

Presented at the Piccadilly Theatre, London, on 31st March 1945, with the following cast of characters:

(in the order of their appearance)

MRS BOYNTON	Mary Clare
GINEVRA BOYNTON	Deryn Kerbey
LENNOX BOYNTON	Ian Labbock
NADINE BOYNTON	Beryl Machin
LIFT BOY	John Clennon
AFDERMAN HIGGS	Percy Walsh
CLEARK	Anthony Dorset
BEDOUIN
LADY WESTHOLME	Janet Burnell
MISS PRYCE	Joan Hickson
DR GERARD	Gerard Hinze
SARAH KING	Carla Lehmann
JEFFERSON COPE	Alan Sedgwick
RAYMOND BOYNTON	John Wynn
DRAGOMAN	Harold Berens
COLONEL CARBERY	Owen Reynolds
LADY VISITOR	Cherry Herbert
HOTEL VISITOR	Corinne Whitehouse, Joseph Blanehard

The play derected by Terence de Marney

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES

ACT I - The lounge of the KingSolomon Hotel, Jerusalem. Afternoon

ACT II

SCENE 1 The Traveller's Camp at Petra. Early afternoon. A week later

SCENE 2 The same. Three hours later

ACT III

SCENE 1 The same. The following morning

SCENE 2 The same. The same afternoon.

Time: the present

Movie & TV

[MV] Appointoment with Death, 1988(USA) 103min.: [direct] Michael Winner; [script] Anthony Shaffer, Peter Buckman, Michael Winner; [cast] Peter Ustinov(Poirot), Piper Laurie(Emily Boynton), Nicholas Guest(Lennox Boynton), Carrie Fisher(Nadine Boynton), John Terlesky(Raymond Boynton), Valerie Richards(Carol Boynton), Amber Bezer(Ginevra Boynton), David Soul(Jefferson Cope), Jenny Seagrove(Dr.Sarah King), Lauren Bacall(Lady Westholme)