Appointment with Death (Poirot)
Hercule Poirot • Book 19
Narrated by Hugh Fraser
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
A murder in Petra's ancient rock city, a victim nobody mourned, and Poirot with just 24 hours — Christie at her most theatrical.
- Great if you want: a claustrophobic family psychodrama wrapped in a whodunit
- Listening experience: tightly wound and atmospheric, with a gothic desert setting
- Narration: Fraser, Poirot's onscreen Hastings, brings unmistakable authority to the character
- Skip if: you prefer more action and less psychological dissection
About This Audiobook
Appointment with Death takes Poirot to the ancient rock city of Petra in Jordan, where the unpleasant Mrs. Boynton, a former prison wardress who exercises a tyrannical psychological control over her grown stepchildren, is found dead with a puncture mark on her wrist. The compressed timeline, twenty-four hours in which Poirot must solve the crime, forces Christie's ingenuity into high gear while the surrounding archaeology and the cast of stranded tourists provide an unusually atmospheric setting.
Hugh Fraser's narration gives this overseas Poirot entry the same precise command he brings to the English-set novels, his Belgian detective no less at home among the sand-colored cliffs of the Middle East. The compressed structure suits audio well, the single-day framework creating a momentum that Fraser sustains by keeping each character's suspicion properly weighted.
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