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Murder in Mesopotamia

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Anna Massey
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A strange death in the desert and Poirot might just be too late…

Amy Leatheran had never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she could ever have imagined. 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.

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…

©1936 Agatha Christie Mallowan; (P)2001 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK Amateur Sleuths Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Thriller Crime Detective
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"Smooth, highly original, and completely absorbing." (New York Times)
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This Poirot story is told from the perspective of one of the female characters. It makes perfect sense that the story is read on audible by a female.

Anna Massey does a good job of all the characters with one exception - Poirot himself. The wonderful portrails of the little Belgian detective by Hugh Fraser and David Suchet are sorely missed here. He doesn't appear in the story till perhaps halfway thru but I did find Massey's Poirot slightly off putting.


Having said that it is another of Christie's wonderful whodunnits and well worth a listen.


I understand why this title is read by a female, but....

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Terrible foreign accents detracted from the story telling and made this book an effort to listen to.

Terrible foreign accents

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I've never heard of the person who narrated the book it took a couple of chapters to get use to the narrator.
I'd never heard of this book so I was intiged about it. it was a very good book with lots of twists and turns throughly enjoyed listening to it. as normal I didn't get the murderer.

Murder in Mesopotamà

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Enjoyed it more than I thought but it has a strange ending, well the reason for the murders strange. Narrators Poirot voice didn’t put me off. Was a BOGOF so can’t complain.

Very Good

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After listening to lots of Poirot’s narrated by Huge Fraser, at first I wasn’t sure about Anna Massey, especially when Poirot is first introduced.
But, she was fantastic and due the book being narrated by Nurse Leatheran it worked very well
and was a nice change.

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