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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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Oct 28, 2019 Kavita rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery, golden-age-mystery, iraq

Knowing that Christie had accompanied her husband, Max Mallowan, to Mesopotamia and had modelled these characters after people she knew there tickled me. In fact, the character of Louise Leidner was inspired by the wife of the senior archaeologist in a dig where Mallowan was working. Christie knew here what she was writing about!

When a certain Dr. Leidner hires Nurse Leatheran to look after his wife, she immediately suspects there is something wrong. However, she did not bargain on a murder. Whe ...more

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Feb 19, 2017 Damaskcat rated it it was amazing

Set on an archaeological dig in Iraq, this is an interesting mystery. It is narrated by Amy Leatheran, a nurse who has gone to look after Louise, the wife of a celebrated archaeologist. She is having frightening hallucinations and has been receiving anonymous letters. But are they hallucinations? Or is someone out to get her and are there really people tapping in windows in the night? Amy isn't at all sure which is the truth but she does know there are many tensions between the members of the ex ...more

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Apr 08, 2019 Frances rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-series

I am loving doing a reread of the Hercule Poirot series. Christie is truly the Queen of Crime.

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Mar 19, 2019 Jill rated it it was amazing

Shelves: agatha-christie

Another change to the usual, where instead of Hastings doing the narration , it is a Nurse Leatheran, who had been brought in the look after the victim. Obviously she failed, as the murder was committed in a closed room. As luck would have it, (or Christie anyway) Hercule Poirot happened to be in the vicinity and did his magic. The nurse's story I found quite humourous at times in her opinion of Poirot and the plot did keep me guessing. ...more

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Jan 13, 2018 Pranit rated it it was amazing

Shelves: hercule-poirot

Reading 📖 it again was fun but somehow the villain 🦹‍♂️ was already in my mind from the last time I read this one. Wonderful Mesopotamia depiction while reading it in winter with snow ❄️ all around was also quite poetic!

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