Hercule Poirot #14
Murder in Mesopotamia
It was clear to nurse Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig, something associated with the presence of ‘Lovely Louise’, the wife of the celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leidner. But she couldn't pinpoint it.
In a few days’ time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. With Louise suffering terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late…
264 pages, Paperback
First published July 6,1936
This edition
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264 pages, Paperback
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December 1, 2001 by Harper
- ISBN
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9780007113804
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0007113803
- Language
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English
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Amy Leatheran
A professional nurse, age 32, narrator of the story.She took her training at St. Christophers and after that did two years maternity. She did a certain amount of private work and was for four years at Ms. Bendixs Nursing Home in Devonshire Pla...
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Dr. Erich Leidner
Known as Eric. A Swedish archaeologist of some repute, head of the dig at Tell Yarimjah near Hassanieh, sponsored by the (fictional) University of Pittstown (US) for the last five years.He is a middle-aged man with a rather nervous, hesitating manner. The...
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Louise Leidner
A beautiful, intelligent American married two years earlier to Dr. Erich Leidner. In her thirties. She has that blond Scandinavian fairness with beautiful, large violet eyes. She is very thin and fragile looking with an air of intense weariness but at the...
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Anne Johnson
Longtime colleague of Dr. Leidner, near 50, native of Yorkshire. She has rather a mannish in appearance, with her iron grey hair cropped short, and an abrupt, pleasant voice, rather deep in tone. She has an ugly rugged face with an almost laughably turned...
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Dr. Giles Reilly
A civil surgeon in Hassanieh, a friend of Poirot, who suggests the Leidner job to nurse Amy Leatheran while she is in Baghdad finishing another job.He has black hair and a long face, he enjoys saying all sorts of funny things in a low, sad voice....
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Richard Carey
The expeditions architect and longtime colleague of Dr. Leidner, handsome man near 40, alleged by Sheila Reilly to be having an affair with Mrs. Leidner.Handsome in a deaths head kind of way; his head gave the effect of having the skin stretch...
About the author
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
