Helpful Score: 4
A really enjoyable mystery, with a truly detestable victim. Full of Agatha Christie's usual fun, vivid characterizations all taking place in a truly fantastic locale - I've been dying to go to Petra since I read it.
Michelle D. (Tribefan) reviewed Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, Bk 18) on + 56 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I enjoyed reading this one! I never once guessed who really did it! I love when I am kept guessing until the very end!
Hercule Poirot may be on vacation, but a killer isn't. The victim's a hateful tourist despised even by her own children. For the guests at the resort hotel, sympathies are with the murderer, which means a tough job for the Belgian detective.
Hercule Poirot may be on vacation, but a killer isn't. The victim's a hateful tourist despised even by her own children. For the guests at the resort hotel, sympathies are with the murderer, which means a tough job for the Belgian detective.
CHRIS P. (MaineMan) reviewed Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, Bk 18) on + 220 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Another great Poirot mystery, you won't know whodunit till the very end!
Another great mystery starring the legendary detective, Hercule Poirot.
Ward K. (koalabearkid) reviewed Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, Bk 18) on + 215 more book reviews
"You see don't you, that she's got to be killed?" These were ominous words for Hercule Poirot to overhear on his first night in Jerusalem. And when a holiday tour of the Holy Land ends abruptly with murder, the words come back to haunt the legendary detective. The victim, Mrs. Boynton, had taken such pleasure in inflicting misery on her own family that everyone else on the tour had watched in horror as the tension built. Many people had a motive for murder...but the question is: Which one was desperate enough to kill? (Also a movie starring Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie, Hayley Mills, and David Soul).
Emily M. (Emily126) reviewed Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, Bk 18) on + 2 more book reviews
One of my favorites!
Kaitlin F. (keitorin) reviewed Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, Bk 18) on + 18 more book reviews
Gods, the suspense! It kept me devouring every page. I just knew the ball would drop, but when? When it did, things got somehow even more exciting and I couldn't put the book down. The end certainly did surprise me, because the story has you following certain theories that may turn out to be wrong. The last chapter reminded me of the Epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but in a good way. Nice way to end things off.
This was a very enjoyable Poirot novel, except that the end left a bad taste in my mouth. The solution seemed a bit of a cop-out, as there was no way for the reader to know the motive (even Poirot was only guessing) and the epilogue was just lame. However, even with those weaknesses, any Christie novel is better than most mysteries written today.
Brenda K. (grammiek) reviewed Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, Bk 18) on + 8 more book reviews
Typical Agatha Christie. Mystery solved at the end. Very enjoyable read.
Donna E. (impossible) reviewed Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, Bk 18) on + 3352 more book reviews
Pub. 1984, copyright 1939. Vintage Christie. An Hercule Poirot mystery.
Catherine L. (catherineal) reviewed Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, Bk 18) on + 46 more book reviews
Absolutey the best - can anyone say enough about Christie's Poirot?
April A. (flutterby) reviewed Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, Bk 18) on + 142 more book reviews
ISBN is 0425108589, but when I kisted it as such a different cover image came up. My cover has Poirot as the central figure (head shot) ahd then other characters around the edge on the front cover. This is on book posted on bookshelf of April A.
