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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Rendez-vous avec la mort, FR, 2019

Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie Saison 2

Shitono Yakusoku, JP, 2021

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