Hercule Poirot's Christmas Lib/E: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Audio) #19) (Compact Disc):Įvil Under the Sun Lib/E: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Audio) #23) (Compact Disc): Murder in the Mews Lib/E: Four Cases of Hercule Poirot (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Audio) #17) (Compact Disc): The ABC Murders Lib/E: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Audio) #13) (Compact Disc):ĭumb Witness Lib/E: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Audio) #16) (Compact Disc): Three ACT Tragedy Lib/E: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Audio) #10) (Compact Disc):ĭeath in the Clouds Lib/E: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Audio) #12) (Compact Disc): The Big Four Lib/E: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Audio) #5) (Compact Disc):īlack Coffee Lib/E: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Audio) #7) (Compact Disc): The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Lib/E: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Audio) #4) (Compact Disc): Murder on the Links Lib/E: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Audio) #2) (Compact Disc): It was published in English as a graphic novel in 2008, having been translated from the French edition of 2005, Meurtre en Mésopotamie.This is book number 14 in the Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Audio) series.

The story was also dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 2005, featuring John Moffatt as Poirot.

Hastings was added to the story, played by Hugh Fraser, and becomes the uncle of one of the characters. Robin Macartnay who acted as draughtsman on the Mallowan's own digs, illustrated the jacket for the Collins Crime Club edition.Ī TV adaptation was broadcast in 2001 as part of the series starring David Suchet. The cast of characters in Murder in Mesopotamia is largely derived from the people she met, including the fierce and determined Katherine Woolley, who first introduced the couple, and whose tempestuous nature is likely to have inspired the victim in the novel. It isn’t long before a murder interrupts the progress of the dig and Nurse Leatheran requests Poirot’s assistance.īy 1936, Christie had frequently travelled with her husband Max Mallowan on his archaeological digs. Full of rich detail from Christie’s own travels in the Middle East, Murder in Mesopotamia sees Poirot on an archaeological expedition, not unlike those his author attended.

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