Delicious Death

UK

Collins, London, May. 1938

Daily Mail, Jan.19-Feb.19 1938 as 'A Date with Death'

US

Dodd, Mead, New York, 1938

Collier's Weekly, Aug.28-Oct.23 1937

Plot

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

Appointment with Death (play)

Full Length Play / Drama(Mystery/Thriller) / More than 120 minutes
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)

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

 

Films & TV

Appointment with Death, CBS/US, 1951

TV drama list

Appointment with Death, UK, 1988

Film list

Appointment with Death, ITV/UK, 2009

Agahta Christie's POIROT XI

Abriaa Wa Laken, 2015; Innocent... However, Lebanon

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Shitono Yakusoku, JP, 2021

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