![]() ![]() ![]() Reproducing the original typesetting and format of the first edition from the Christie family's own archive, this book sports the original cover which has been painstakingly restored to its original glory. To mark the 80th anniversary of Hercule Poirot's first appearance, and to celebrate his renewed fortunes as a primetime television star, this title in a collection of facsimile first editions is the perfect way to experience Agatha Christie. Boynton, is a domineering American invalid with four stepchildren whose facade of devotion masks enough hatred to murder her as could the doctor whose affection for Raymond Boynton is being obstructed by the old lady. Few people would have had the medical knowledge to inject Mrs Boynton Mrs Boynton was injected with digitoxin, to which the antidote is digitalis, so she should not have died Digitalis and digitoxin cannot be injected It did not make sense to inject Mrs Boynton with digitoxin when it could be added to her medicine 8. 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. Appointment with Death opened in the West End on Maat the Piccadilly Theatre. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. A facsimile first edition hardback of the exotic Poirot book, based on Agatha Christie's own travels in the Middle-east with her archaeologist husband.Īmong the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. ![]()
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