| Appointment with Death: Complete & Unabridged |  | Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: ISIS Audio Books
Category: Book
Buy New: £31.94
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 3084708
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
ISBN: 1856956695
EAN: 9781856956697
ASIN: 1856956695
Publication Date: January 1994
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 Hugh Fraser is a great choice August 23, 2005
I. Pearson (United Kingdom)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This Five disk set is well worth your money, you get so much more detail with the books than you do with the two hour TV shows with Six hours listening the unabridged Poirot is a joy to listen to.
Hugh Fraser is a great choice to read these books and if you like his voice he has a great gift for playing the different parts.
My only question is why did it take so long for someone to do away with Mrs Boynton!
Carole Boyd triumphs yet again November 5, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've heard a lot of Carole Boyd's narration of other stories particularly Josephine Cox And wanted to hear her rendition of a Hercule Poirot mystery just out of curiousity ; I was very pleased with it . Carole has an impressive vocal variety and you can clearly distinguish all the different characters in the narration - it's almost like the next best thng to a BBC Radio Porduction ! The story however didn't quite make as much sense as all the other Hercule Poirot stories though the ending was quite unexpected & therefore very good .
 Same old format, but one of the better Agatha Christie June 23, 2004
G. Thulbourn (England)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The usual formula from Agatha Chrisite: set the scene, interview the suspects one by one then reveal the culprit. Easy reading and engaging, but not exactly challenging reading. That said, it's probably one of the best examples of Agatha Christie's that I've read.
Another wonderful BBC take on Agatha Christie. April 15, 2003
DARBY KERN (Green Bay, WI United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Once again, the BBC does a stellar job on an Agatha Christie book, one of my favorites no less! John Moffat is perfect as Poirot! My only complaint is the music that opens and closes this production. It's too modern a take on middle-eastern music. I'm sure it was done on a synthasizer. Otherwise- top notch.
 Standing in a Queue with a Gun in My Hand* March 18, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Appointment With Death is a flashy Ags novel from her classic period in the 30s, memorable mostly for the setting (Petra, the Rose Red City) and the character of the gross, fat, nasty murder victim Mrs Boynton. Her children, cowed and stunted by their tyrannical mother, are a less interesting bunch of suspects than Christie usually gives us, which makes the body of the story a bit dull. Towards the end the plot gets so convoluted, with suspicion swapping so rapidly between all 8 suspects that I found it a bit difficult to follow. For once I thought: 'maybe Poirot actually is getting a bit gaga'. The solution though, when we finally get to it, is short and sharp, clever, extremely unexpected and very satisfying. Actually, this story's a bit like standing in a long queue at the post office for a single stamp - a boring wait followed by a swift and satisfying ending.The adaptation is faithful to the plot and the characters are all very appropriately voiced. The ending of the adaptation is such an improvement to that in the original novel that I'd go so far to say I prefer it. I agree with the previous reviewer who said the setting wasn't particularly well represented - the most we seem to get is some vaguely Arabic street noise and a few opening and closing windows (which of course aren't particular to the Middle East). As for the performances: the actor who played Col Carbury sounded like he was reading the script for the first time (perhaps he was a last minute addition - the understudy???) John Moffat as Poirot was again brilliant and Mrs Boynton was played with a great deal of venem which was fun. Some of the hour and a half BBC adaptations come across as rushed or cut about a bit, but this one doesn't, perhaps because there was less 'plot' in the middle section of the book to adapt. In short: another high quality, fan-pleasingly loyal adaptation. The only downfall? A doddery Col Carbury and a lack of local colour. * Apols to 'the cure'
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