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nahret 's review for:
Murder in Mesopotamia
by Agatha Christie
adventurous
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Let's be real, I always resent the books where Poirot isn't there from the start a little. While I appreciate all the setup, and I like the different narrators and how Christie nails their voices, I'm always just waiting for Poirot to show up, because that's where things get moving.
This is one of the classical closed environment situations, where murder was probably an inside job: everybody is a suspect, most people have one kind of motif or another, alibis fail, etc. Did I suspect correctly? Hell no. But as usual, Poirot's little grey cells are just better than mine, and they save the day satisfactorily.
A note, maybe, on our narrator: she is the very epitome of a British person of her time, convinced that Great Britain is the pinnacle of civilization. Whether this attitude reflects Christie's is unclear, but it certainly is typical of the era.
This is one of the classical closed environment situations, where murder was probably an inside job: everybody is a suspect, most people have one kind of motif or another, alibis fail, etc. Did I suspect correctly? Hell no. But as usual, Poirot's little grey cells are just better than mine, and they save the day satisfactorily.
A note, maybe, on our narrator: she is the very epitome of a British person of her time, convinced that Great Britain is the pinnacle of civilization. Whether this attitude reflects Christie's is unclear, but it certainly is typical of the era.