Reproducing the original typesetting and format of the first edition from the Christie family's own archive, this book sports the original cover which has been painstakingly restored to its original glory. Murder in Mesopotamia: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries 14) (Paperback). With one spot of blood as his only clue, Hercule Poirot must embark on a journey across the desert to unravel a mystery which taxes even his remarkable powers! To mark the 80th anniversary of Hercule Poirot's first appearance, and to celebrate his renewed fortunes as a primetime television star, this title in a collection of facsimile first editions is the perfect way to experience Agatha Christie.

Her patient's bizarre visions and nervous terror seem unfounded, but as the oppressive tension in the air thickens, events come to a terrible climax - in murder.

The local police ask him to investigate, and. Get 50 off this audiobook at the AudiobooksNow online audio book. While there, the wife of the leader of the expedition is murdered. Download or stream Murder in Mesopotamia: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie. Poirot is on vacation visiting his friend Captain Hastings, who is helping to excavate an ancient Mesopotamian site. When Amy Leatheran travels to an ancient site in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she has ever imagined. David Suchet plays Poirot in another entertaining murder mystery by Agatha Christie. It was published in English as a graphic novel in 2008, having been translated from the French edition of 2005, Meurtre en Mésopotamie.Print Murder in Mesopotamia (Poirot Facsimile Edition)Ī facsimile first edition hardback of the famous Poirot book, with a strange death in the desert. 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. 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.

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