Appointment With Death

In the remote outskirts of Petra, sat the still deadbody of Mrs Boynton, the sadist head of the Boynton family. Was she killed or did she died a natural death? With the remaining members of the Boynton family having chances and motives for killing the cruel lady whose hypnotic spell had, so far, kept them mentally exhausted, it remains on Poirot to clear the doubts. Without the findings of autopsy, it depends on Poirot to analyze the psychology of the witnesses to sieve through their interviews to arrive at the truth.
A revelation, that I had here was, the hypothesis of Poirot that if criminals are allowed to speak, the truth is automatically leaked out by them, which I found quite enlightening.

After the Funeral

It all happened after a funeral when the sudden remark of one of the attendees gave a new perspective to the apparently normal death of Richard Abbernethie. Added to the mystery was the brutal murder of his sister, Cora, by a hatchet in her own home. This unsettled the mind of Richard's solicitor, Mr Entwhistle, who consulted the self proclaimed best brain in the business, Poirot. The psychological game had been already set afoot and mishap was waiting round the corner. The web of evil had been spun that tried to entangle the others. When the members of the Abernethie clan was shedding doubts on each other, Poirot entered the arena in disguise. But the disguise was shortlived, as was the mist that engulfed the minds of people. What remained was how the evil was trapped in this enjoyable whodunit which might not keep you guessing till the climax but will surely keep its grip on your mind till all is revealed. Presented in the signature Christie style of narrating from various perspectives save a few that includes the sleuth, the investigator is introduced quite near the finale that gave the characters the required space to make impression to make the mystery even more enticing.