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A review by mo_mentan
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
4.0
my concentration was somehow lacking while listening to this, which certainly wasn't helped by the fact that the narrator did a very bad french accent (it sounded more like german?!) which is a problem when the main character is a francophone. maybe that was the reason why i didn't get too invested in the characters.
it reminded me a lot of ms peabody's adventures what with the setting and the archeology (although this was iraq and i think the peabody mysteries are set in egypt).
there was, as always with christie, a lot of racism and even more misogyny (especially internalised, the narrator was at times almost unbearable).
the way the murder was committed wasn't very believable, the motive was intense but men believing women are their property is a thing and feminicides happen everyday. however i would have greatly appreciated for the narrator not to have more sympathy with the murderer than with the victim. but that mrs. leidner wouldn't notice her new husband was also her old one is quite unbelievable. or isn't it? thinking about it, i might not notice if i met a person i had a ons with years ago in disguise, and we didn't learn much about how long they had been together when he died, though it cannot have been long as she was only about 18 when the war ended.
i did actually guess who the murderer was (without all the details), which i seldom do with christie's novels. i also expected for the priest to turn up dead in a cave, but i think that was because it reminded me of peabody so much (for a while i actually thought i had read this already.)
all in all, not great, i have been much more invested, but also an intriguing mystery.
it reminded me a lot of ms peabody's adventures what with the setting and the archeology (although this was iraq and i think the peabody mysteries are set in egypt).
there was, as always with christie, a lot of racism and even more misogyny (especially internalised, the narrator was at times almost unbearable).
the way the murder was committed wasn't very believable, the motive was intense but men believing women are their property is a thing and feminicides happen everyday. however i would have greatly appreciated for the narrator not to have more sympathy with the murderer than with the victim. but that mrs. leidner wouldn't notice her new husband was also her old one is quite unbelievable. or isn't it? thinking about it, i might not notice if i met a person i had a ons with years ago in disguise, and we didn't learn much about how long they had been together when he died, though it cannot have been long as she was only about 18 when the war ended.
i did actually guess who the murderer was (without all the details), which i seldom do with christie's novels. i also expected for the priest to turn up dead in a cave, but i think that was because it reminded me of peabody so much (for a while i actually thought i had read this already.)
all in all, not great, i have been much more invested, but also an intriguing mystery.