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Appointment with Death

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
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About this listen

A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra…

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

©1938 Agatha Christie Mallowan (P)2001 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK Detective Mystery Traditional Detectives Fiction

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"Twice as brilliant as Death on the Nile, which was entirely brilliant." (Observer)
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I love Agatha Christie and Hugh Fraser is an appropriate and familiar narrator. Speed, intonation and accents are all reasonable and this is a good undemanding listen.

Great mystery

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A really good listen. Thoroughly worth listening to. I really got into the story and was engaged by it. I would recommend it.

A good listen

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Another great Agatha Christie story read by Hugh Fraser. Hugh Fraser does a wonderful job bring life to the story. When a former prison wardress who dominates the lives of her three adult stepchildren and her daughter is found dead at an archaeological dig near the Dead Sea, there are a great many suspects but who killed her???

Great Story

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You can never go far wrong with Agatha Christie and this is one of her best. As always Hugh Frasier is a brilliant narrator.

very entertaining

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This has long been one of my favourite Christie novels- very interesting characters and a most unusual setting. I haven't yet made it to Petra but it's definitely on my bucket list, purely because of this book.

Murder at Petra

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