title: After the Funeral: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
author: Agatha Christie
description: Agatha Christies puzzles have delighted fans for decades. (Diane Mott Davidson, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author)<br /><br />Complete with a genealogical tree, a dubious will, and a family full of potential murderers. (New York Times)
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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.
  As he pulled the curtains neatly over the window and walked to his bed, he smiled tolerantly to
  himself. "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" Curious words for one Hercule Poirot,
  detective, to overhear on his first night in Jerusalem.
  "Decidedly, wherever I go, there i