Murder in Mesopotamia: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection)

SUMMARY: When nurse Amy Leatheran agrees to look after American archaeologist Dr Leidner’s wife Louise at a dig near Hassanieh she finds herself taking on more than just nursing duties – she also has to help solve murders. Fortunately for Amy, Hercule Poirot is visiting the excavation site but will the great detective be in time to prevent a multiple murderer from striking again? Mystery fiction,Fiction,Mystery & Detective,Suspense,Mystery,Detective,Fiction - Mystery,Archaeologists,Traditional British,Americans,Mystery And Suspense Fiction,Private investigators,Mystery & Detective - Traditional British,Iraq,Poirot; Hercule (Fictitious character),Belgians,Christie; Agatha; 1890-1976,Belgians - Iraq,Private investigators - Iraq,Americans - Iraq E-book exclusive extras: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Murder in Mesopotamia; "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective. Nurse Amy Leatheran had never felt the lure of the ‘mysterious East,’ but she nonetheless accepts an assignment at Hassanieh, an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert, to care for the wife of a celebrated archaeologist. Mrs Leidner is suffering bizarre visions and nervous terror. ‘I’m afraid of being killed!’ she admits to her nurse. Her terror, unfortunately, is anything but unfounded, and Nurse Leatheran is soon enough without a patient. The world’s greatest detective happens to be in the vicinity, however: having concluded an assignment in Syria, and curious about the dig at Hassanieh, Hercule Poirot arrives in time to lead a murder investigation that will tax even his remarkable powers -- and in a part of the world that has seen more than its share of misadventure and foul play. An archaeologists wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq. 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 An archaeologist's wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq ... It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; something associated with the presence of 'Lovely Louise', wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr Leidner. In a few days' time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late!

As hired nurse to a paranoid and isolated new patient, Amy wonders what to make of the woman's nervous terrors, of her bizarre stories of a vengeful but dead husband, of the dire warnings...or for that matter, of her charge's sudden, brutal murder.

Something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig, something associated with Louise, the archaeologist's wife. Poirot was due to visit the site, but with Louise suffering from hallucinations and unbearable tension in the group, he might just be too late Hercule Poirot is summoned to solve a case involving the murder of a seductive woman accompanying a scientific party investigating the secrets of ancient Babylon IN the hall of the Tigris Palace Hotel in Baghdad a hospital nurse was finishing a letter.