The two doctors put their heads together and discuss the peculiar family – Sarah has her romantic eye on one of the sons – despite having only spoken to him once in the corridor of a train. Already they have come to the attention of Sarah King a young woman from England who has just completed her medical degree, and a Frenchman Dr Gerrard a renowned psychologist/psychiatrist – not sure which. The Boyntons stand out rather – as they make a point of keeping themselves to themselves. Staying in the same hotel is the Boynton family from America. Poirot remembers the words of course, and knows that he will recognise the voice again should he hear it. Poirot doesn’t attach too much importance to the words at first – realising he has heard only a snippet of a conversation – totally out of context. “You see, don’t you that she’s got to be killed?” On his first night in Jerusalem Hercule Poirot over-hears part of a rather odd conversation while fiddling with his window at the Solomon Hotel. Appointment with Death is a Poirot mystery – and he was always my favourite. I love the familiarity of Agatha Christie’s world – old fashioned and a little class conscious it might be – there is nevertheless a wonderfully polite kind of justice within the pages of an Agatha Christie mystery which is oddly comforting. The 1938 club provided me with the perfect excuse to pick one up – one I have certainly read before, long enough ago to have forgotten the crucial details. I think I am sometimes in danger of forgetting how much I love Agatha Christie.
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