She has a professional character of the highest, she is not biased by having any previous connections with the University of Pittstown Expedition to Iraq and she was an observant and intellectual eye-witness.’ Nurses proved to be a popular choice of protagonist in vintage crime fiction novels, found in the works of authors such as Mary Roberts Rinehart, M. We are told in a foreword written by Dr Reilly that she is ‘obviously the person to do it. The narrator of Murder in Mesopotamia is Amy Leatheran, who visits the Hassanieh dig to act as nurse companion to the victim, Dr Leidner’s wife, Louise. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late…’ In a few days’ time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. ‘An archaeologist’s wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq… It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq something associated with the presence of ‘Lovely Louise’, wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr Leidner.
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