When a side trip to Petra proves fatal to the heart disease ridden old martinet, all the family and several others come under the suspicion of the local police chief. Somehow one son has managed to get married, only to have his wife sucked into the old spider’s web.For some reason, not adequately explained in the novel, the entire troupe find themselves away from home for the first time and in Jerusalem of all places. For that I find little sympathy for the two boys and the two daughters. Her family, her three step-children and her own daughter, are and have been subject to the most despicable mental torture for their entire lives, Shut away from the world with the old woman out in the country, they never managed to break away from her. Boynton, a horrible sadist whose victims are the one group of people she should care the most about. The first section is taken up by the victim and her family. And the way he treats everyone involved is pretty revolting.I expect to have more of Poirot throughout the novel, not have him relegated to the second have of the story. In a Poirot novel I want the Belgian to be somehow included in the ways and means of the mystery, not brought in at a later time to act as judge of an entire family. From the start where Poirot just :happens” to accidentally overhear damning evidence to his treatment of the suspects, none of it fit well with me. Appointment With Death (1937) (Poirot #19) by Agatha Christie.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |