Appointment with death: a Hercule Poirot Mystery – Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie
Appointment with Death
To Richard and Myra Mallock,
to remind them of their
journey to Petra.
Book One
1
“You do see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?”
The question floated out into the still night air, seemed to hang there a moment and then drift away down into the darkness towards the Dead Sea.
Hercule Poirot paused a minute with his hand on the window catch. Frowning, he shut it decisively, thereby excluding any injurious night air! Hercule Poirot had been brought up to believe that all outside air was best left outside, and that night air was especially dangerous to the health.
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