Murder in Mesopotamia

by Agatha Christie

Ebook, 2011

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Poirot, on his way home to England after solving the Murder on the Orient Express, is drawn into a curious case in Iraq. The wife of an American archaeologist has been murdered after months of receiving threatening letters purporting to have come from her first husband, who was executed as a spy.

Or was he? The story is told in the voice of a young English nurse who was brought to the dig as a companion for the now-murdered wife. It's amusing to read her views of Poirot change from "eww, weirdo" to "ooh, smarty-pants", and she's enough of an outsider to the suspects (having begun working for the wife a week or so earlier) to be an effective stand-in for the reader. The final solution isn't one of Dame Agatha's super-twisty ones, but I'm sure she needed a mental break after pulling Orient Express out of her skull just one book earlier.

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Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML: Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Hercule Poirot as he investigates Murder in Mesopotamia, a classic murder mystery from Agatha Christie. Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she could ever have imagined. Her patient's bizarre visions and nervous terror seem unfounded, but as the oppressive tension in the air thickens, events come to a terrible climax�??in murder. With one spot of blood as his only clue, Hercule Poirot must embark on a journey not just across the desert, but into the darkest crevices of the human soul to unravel a mystery which taxes even his remarkable powers.… (more)