There’s nothing really wrong with it that would cause anyone adapting it to say, “ Oh, this’ll never work on film, we have to put these pieces back in a different order.” It’s pretty much classic Christie, although it doesn’t reach “sacred text” status the way Roger Ackroyd, Orient Express, or Death on the Nile does. It’s not quite as insane as, say “Murder in Mesopotamia”, but it’s… it’s close, and less competently executed.Īnd let’s be clear: Appointment With Death is a fine book! It’s approachable, clever, and has some very good character work.
It retains some of the characters, reconfigures others, adds still others, and while it retains the inciting event of the book ( Lady Boynton gets killed), the motivations, details, and just about everything else are complete inventions of writer Guy Andrews.
This episode is an “adaptation” of the novel in the very loosest sense of the word. Lord Boynton ( WADSWORTH TIM CURRY!) is running an archaeological dig in Syria looking for the head of John the Bapti- oh, you know what, let’s get this out of the way right now and discuss the elephant in the room, and newcomers beware: to get into this, there’s gonna be spoilers for the book and the episode, because the two are so divergent that if I put spoiler tags around all the bits we need to talk about then it would literally be an entire article encased in a gigantic spoiler tag. Pour one out, mes amis, for this is the last time in the series we get to see Our Belgian in his desert whites with his spyglass cane! Longtime readers will know I have a soft spot for “Hercule on Vacation” episodes, and this… well, keep reading.
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