She did, however, have some rather dated and somewhat racist views but whether this was the ignorance of the character or the fact it was written in 1936 is unclear. I saw perfectly well that he meant to make a song and dance of it.Īmy has a young, straight-to-the-point, often sarcastic voice and brings a fresh feel to a Poirot story, so for that reason, I did like it. Usually one of Poirot’s police colleagues, this time we get events from the point of view of Amy Leatheran, a nurse assigned to look after Louise Leidner, the woman who is murdered.īut that wasn’t the way Hercule Poirot did things. Murder in Mesopotamia had a different tone to it thanks to a new narrator. As luck would have it, Hercule Poirot, one of the world’s greatest detectives, just happened to be passing through the area so could pop down to the dig site to take a look and interview all the witnesses / suspects. How handy Poirot popped by…Īncient Mesopotamia is modern day Iraq and this story takes place near Baghdad, where the wife of an archaeologist is murdered in mysterious circumstances. Opening sentence: The events chronicled in this narrative took place some four years ago. I was intrigued by the fact it was inspired by the time that Agatha spent on dig sites with her second husband, Sir Max Mallowan CBE, a prominent British archaeologist. Murder in Mesopotamia is the 14th Hercule Poirot mystery and has been on my Agatha Christie TBR for a while.
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