It was published in English as a graphic novel in 2008, having been translated from the French edition of 2005, Meurtre en Mésopotamie. The story was also dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 2005, featuring John Moffatt as Poirot. Hastings was added to the story, played by Hugh Fraser, and becomes the uncle of one of the characters. Robin Macartnay who acted as draughtsman on the Mallowan's own digs, illustrated the jacket for the Collins Crime Club edition.Ī TV adaptation was broadcast in 2001 as part of the series starring David Suchet. The cast of characters in Murder in Mesopotamia is largely derived from the people she met, including the fierce and determined Katherine Woolley, who first introduced the couple, and whose tempestuous nature is likely to have inspired the victim in the novel. It isn’t long before a murder interrupts the progress of the dig and Nurse Leatheran requests Poirot’s assistance.īy 1936, Christie had frequently travelled with her husband Max Mallowan on his archaeological digs. Poirot's ingenious solution to the crime is purely psychological, but we can see all his reasoning, and it is fair-play.Full of rich detail from Christie’s own travels in the Middle East, Murder in Mesopotamia sees Poirot on an archaeological expedition, not unlike those his author attended.
Leidner calls in Nurse Leatheran, who serves as Hercule Poirot's assistant once Mrs. Having received anonymous letters from the husband she believed to have been executed as a German spy, she fears for her life Dr. An archaeologists wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq It was clear to Amy Leatheran that. Leidner who is responsible for the "queer tension", the atmosphere of sorrow and strained nerves. Leidner and his enigmatic Belle Dame Sans Merci wife Louise, bludgeoned to death in her room in what would have been impossible circumstances had it not been for the work routine of a certain character, are modelled on Leonard Woolley and his domineering wife. Austin Freeman narrator Nurse Leatheran is Christie herself, that David Emmott is her husband Max Mallowan, and that the American archaeologist Dr. In this official authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the great Hercule Poirot.
The archaeological Expedition House at Tell Yarimjah is based on Christie's own experiences in Iraq and Syria, and it is clear that, for example, the R. Buy a cheap copy of Murder in Mesopotamia book by Agatha Christie. This highly ingenious crime passionel is, if my memory serves me correctly (and it probably doesn't), the first Agatha Christie novel I ever read I had discovered the short story collection, Poirot Investigates, a week or so before.
Christie, Agatha - Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
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