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Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)

Agatha Christie

Start date: April 1, 2019

Finish date: April 30, 2019

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Nov 06, 2021 Amy rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-as-an-audiobook, 2021

I kind of loved that we found out Poirot is a practicing Catholic!

The woman narrator took away from the story because her men's voices were either nasally or extra nasally. ...more

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Jan 19, 2018 Teri-K rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-mystery, mystery-golden-age

There are some mysteries full of characters I love so much I spend the entire book wishing all of them could be innocent. Then there are books where pretty much everyone is unlikable and I don't care which of them did it. Unfortunately this is one of those books. Set in an archaeological dig at Mesopotamia, my favorite part of this story is the narrator, a nurse whose job is to tend a married woman suffering from anxiety and nerves. I like the nurse a lot, she's kind and sensible, but I really d ...more

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Mar 25, 2017 Nanosynergy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017read, fiction, reviewed, series, mysteries-thrillers-espionage, british, fiction-1930s

Hercule Poirot visits an archaeology dig in Iraq of archaeologist Dr. Leidner and his wife Louise. The atmosphere is tense and foreboding. Louise Leidner is inexplicably afraid for her life and to comfort her, Dr. Leidner hires a nurse to care for her, apparently not believing his wife is in any real danger and having psychological issues instead. However, when Louise Leidner is found murdered in her bedroom with all the doors and windows shut, Poirot engages the grey cells in pursuit of the kil ...more

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