5/7/2023 0 Comments Murder in mesopotamia![]() A week later, after receiving another threatening letter, Louise is found dead in her bedroom in the archaeologists' compound near the dig site. ![]() Louise reveals that she received death threats claiming to be from Frederick, whenever she was attracted to another man these stopped when she married Leidner three years ago, until recently. ![]() Fifteen years ago, during the Great War, Bosner was arrested for being a spy within the US State Department, and sentenced to death he escaped custody, but died later in a train crash. During her initial days, Amy learns that Louise was married before to a German named Frederick Bosner. Nurse Amy Leatheran arrives at an archaeological dig near Hassanieh, Iraq, to assist the Swedish-American archaeologist, Dr Eric Leidner, in caring for his seemingly- neurotic wife, Louise. The novel is set at an archaeological excavation in Iraq, and descriptive details derive from the author's visit to the Royal Cemetery at Ur where she met her husband, Sir Max Mallowan, and other British archaeologists. ![]() The book features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The cover was designed by Robin McCartney. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. Murder in Mesopotamia is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 July 1936 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. ![]()
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