In this book, Christie returned to the first-person narrator style, the narrator in question being Nurse Amy Leatheran – Captain Hastings, presumably, still occupied in The Argentine. The full book of Murder in Mesopotamia was first published in the UK in July 1936, and in the US shortly after. This version provided some of the characters with different names: Dr and Mrs Leidner were originally Dr and Mrs Trevor, and Amy Leatheran was Amy Seymour. The book was originally published in the US in magazine format in the Saturday Evening Post during November and December 1935 in the UK, an abridged version was published in eight instalments in Women’s Pictorial Magazine under the title No Other Love. The story takes place in the wilds of ancient Babylonia and Assyria, where Christie had visited with her husband Max Mallowan and it is largely accepted that the character of Louise Leidner is based on Katharine Woolley, stalwart of many archaeological digs, and the person to whom Christie had previously dedicated (along with her husband) The Thirteen Problems. If you haven’t read the book yet, don’t worry, I promise not to tell you whodunit!Ĭhristie dedicated the book to “my many archaeological friends in Iraq and Syria”. There’s a motley crew of archaeologists and assistants working there – and one of them must have done it! As you would expect, Hercule Poirot gets to the bottom of this case fairly quickly. In which Hercule Poirot encounters an archaeological dig in Iraq, only to discover that the wife of the leader of the dig has been murdered in a seemingly impossible manner.
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