amy leatheran
She took her training at St. Christopher's and after that did two years maternity. She did a certain amount of private work and was for four years at Ms. Bendix's Nursing Home in Devonshire Place. Leatheran came out to Iraq with a Mrs. Kelsey. She had attended her when her baby was born. Mrs. Kelsey was coming out to Baghdad with her husband and had already got a children's nurse booked who had been for some years with friends of hers out there. Their children were coming home and going to school, and the nurse had agreed to go to Mrs. Kelsey when they left. Mrs. Kelsey was delicate and nervous about the journey out with so young a child, so Major Kelsey arranged that Miss Leatheran should come out with her and look after her and the baby. They would pay her passage home unless they found someone needing a nurse for the return journey.…more
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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...
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Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot is one of Agatha Christies most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era. Poirots name was derived from two other fictional detectives ...
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Sheila Reilly
The outspoken daughter of Dr. Reilly. About 20 years old and the only girl her age among many young Englishman in Baghdad and environs.She has black hair and blue eyes. She has a a pale sort of face, good looking; she has a cool, sarcastic way of talking....
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Marie Mercado
Young devoted wife of Mr. Joseph Mercado. About 25, at times strangely hostile to Mrs. Leidner, Nurse Leatheran and Hercule Poirot.She is sort of dark and slinky-looking, and has a think bird-like eager face with big eyes and rather a tight, suspicious mo...
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Joseph Mercado
Colleague at the dig for two years, often fatigued and subject to violent shaking of the hands.Tall, thin, melancholy man with a sallow complexion and a queer, soft, shapeless-looking beard. He is a good deal older than his wife....
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David Emmott
A quiet young American man. Second year with the dig team, calm and self-possessed.He has very short hair cropped close to his head. He has long, rather humorous face and very good teeth, and he looks very attractive when he smiles....
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Bill Coleman
A young man at his first dig with no particular interest in archaeology and a self-professed skill for forgery....
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Carl Reiter
A young man of 28 from Chicago. First year at the dig as the photographer. He is frequently subjected to ridicule by Mrs. Leidner.He is a stout, fair young man with glasses. His hair is rather long and curly, and he has very round blue eyes....
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Captain Maitland
The policeman in charge of the murder investigation. British....
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Father Lavigny
French cleric. New to the team. He is a specialist in epigraphy, old languages. He is a tall man with a great black beard and pince-nez. He has shrewd, observant eyes which dart about from face to face. He replaced a man named Dr. Byrd....
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Major Pennyman
An elderly man who meets Amy Leatheran and Mrs. Kelsey before nurse Leatheran goes out to the dig. Theres also a young squadron leader who is a friend of Mrs. Kelsey.more...
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Major And Mrs. Kelsey
Nurse Leatheran was working for the Kelseys with their new baby prior to her being hired by Dr. Leidner. more...
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Frederick Bosner
The first husband of Louise Leidner. Presumed deceased....
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The Man At The Window
A man was seen from a distance looking into a window of the expedition house. He wore European clothing. His description varies....
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William Bosner
The younger brother of Frederick Bosner. Perhaps 10 years younger....
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Abdullah (murder In Mesopotamia)
A boy who washes pots in the courtyard for the expedition. There are also Ibrahim and Mansur, the houseboys and an Indian cook....
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Iago (murder In Mesopotamia)
A fictional character. From Shakespeares Othello which was written in the first years of the 17th century. The antagonist in the play. Although he works for Othello, he hates him.more...
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Hans Andersen (murder In Mesopotamia)
A real person. Hans Christian Anderson lived from 1805 to 1875. Danish. An author best remembered for his fairy tales including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and The Ugly Duckling....
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Verrier
A French archeologist who visits the camp. A little man. Cheery....
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Raoul Menier
A thief known to the French police. He has an associate, Ali Yousuf....