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A review by taetris
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
4.0
This Agatha Christie novel had a lot of the Golden Age mystery tropes: murder in a closed room, which can only be accessed through one door, opening onto a courtyard which could only be accessed through an archway. The victim is a beautiful women with hidden enemies.
This mystery involves Hercule Poirot, but it is not told by the usual narrator, Captain Hastings, but rather through Nurse Leatheran, who provides a new view on the character Poirot, whom we know so well.
The book is well written, the characters are easy to imagine and the mystery itself had a nice twist.
The only negative point were the colonial-sounding (under)tones and general snobbishness that cropped up in the narration at times.
This mystery involves Hercule Poirot, but it is not told by the usual narrator, Captain Hastings, but rather through Nurse Leatheran, who provides a new view on the character Poirot, whom we know so well.
The book is well written, the characters are easy to imagine and the mystery itself had a nice twist.
The only negative point were the colonial-sounding (under)tones and general snobbishness that cropped up in the narration at times.