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Appointment with Death : ウィキペディア英語版 | Appointment with Death
''Appointment with Death'' is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 May 1938〔''The Observer'', 1 May 1938 (p. 6)〕 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.〔John Cooper and B.A. Pyke. ''Detective Fiction – the collector's guide'': Second Edition (Pages 82 and 86) Scholar Press. 1994. ISBN 0-85967-991-8〕〔(American Tribute to Agatha Christie )〕 The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6)〔Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon. ''Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions''. Dragonby Press (Second Edition) March 1999 (p. 15)〕 and the US edition at $2.00.〔 The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and reflects Christie's experiences travelling in the Middle East with her husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. ==Plot introduction== Holidaying in Jerusalem, Poirot overhears Raymond Boynton telling his sister, "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" Their stepmother, Mrs Boynton, is a sadistic tyrant who dominates her family. When she is found dead on a trip to Petra, Poirot proposes to solve the case in twenty-four hours, even though he has no way of knowing whether it was murder.
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