Appointment with Death (#11.4)

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
	David Suchet	...	Hercule Poirot
	Tim Curry	...	Lord Boynton
	Jawad Elalami	...	Labourer
	Christina Cole	...	Sarah
	Tom Riley	...	Raymond
	Cheryl Campbell	...	Lady Boynton
	Zoe Boyle	...	Jinny
	Emma Cunniffe	...	Carol
	Angela Pleasence	...	Nanny
	Aizoun Abdelkader	...	Concierge (as Abdelkader Aizoun)
	Paul Freeman	...	Carbury
	Beth Goddard	...	Sister Agnieszka
	Christian McKay	...	Cope
	Mark Gatiss	...	Leonard
	Mansour Badri	...	Taxi Driver (as Badri Mansour)

Storyline

Syria, 1937: Hercule Poirot is one of several people present at an archaeological dig to find the skull of St John the Baptist, led by the exuberant Lord Boynton and his loyal son Leonard. The enterprise has been financed by Boynton's rich, rude and overbearing American wife. She bullies her three adopted children, Carol, Jinny and Raymond, as well as the family's nanny. Sarah King, a young English doctor, falls for Raymond and would love to tear him from his mother's apron-strings, and another doctor, Dr Gerard, takes an interest in Jinny, as does a Polish nun, who, with Jinny, is subject to an attack - by white slavers, according to the independent travel-writer Dame Celia Westholme. A mysterious young American, Jefferson Cope, whose link to the Boyntons seems tenuous, completes the group. Only his Lordship has any love for his wife so that, when she is found stabbed to death one blisteringly hot afternoon... Written by don@minifie-1  

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