![]() The remainder of the book covers the investigation into her death. It comes to a climax when Mrs Boynton is found dead. The beginning of the book is taken up with relating their journey to Petra and the complicated relationships between the characters. Also in the group are Jonathan Cope, a family friend, Sarah King, a newly qualified doctor, Lady Westholme, a member of Parliament and Miss Annabel Pierce, a former nursery governess. The Boyntons and Dr Gerard travel on through the Judean desert to Petra. She likes to have control of other human beings and she likes to make them suffer. ![]() That is very much rarer and very much more difficult to deal with. … she rejoices in the infliction of pain – mental pain, mind you, not physical. ![]() Dr Gerard, a French psychologist, also a tourist remarks that Mrs Boynton is a malignant and malicious tyrant who enjoyed exercising her power over her family, who all hated and yet obeyed her. There are two stepsons, one is married, a daughter and a step daughter. The novel begins in Jerusalem where the Boyton family are sightseeing. It seemed right to read this book straight after I’d finished reading Come, Tell Me How You Live in which Agatha Christie wrote about her life on archaeological expeditions in Syria with her husband Max Mallowan. Agatha Christie’s Appointment with Death, set in the Middle East was first published in 1938 after her final pre-war visit to the area. ![]()
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