Love kills all.

Half way the book I remembered that I've actually seen the small screen adaptation of Murder in Mesopotamia starring the unrivalled David Suchet. Along with that I also recalled the identity of the murderer and the tricky method by which the crime was committed. Oh well, there were still a few twists left over for me to relish. Besides, I adore any Poirot mystery set in an exotic location. Four stars!

A classic Poirot, and I loved having Amy Letheran, a very capable and smart nurse, as the sidekick for Poirot (a nice change from the bungling Hastings)

Je ne me lasse jamais d'Hercule Poirot et des ses aventures. J'en ai lu certaines de nombreuses fois et j'ai vu leurs adaptations à la télévision et au cinéma mais leur lecture me donne toujours autant de plaisir:)

** spoiler alert ** I really did read this book at the wrong time. I think I felt like a Poirot book but I maybe wasn't in the mood for one set in the Middle East, or maybe I was in a tiny reading slump. So I didn't enjoy it as much as I normally would have, but I can see it was a great book regardless. The setting was fabulous. I enjoy the novels where Poirot is not in the UK but travelling around, and I have found that the ones set in the Middle East are always fascinating. Especially if set in a closed environment such as the house. I was really entertained by this one because the murder seemed to be quite a complex one, but then it turned out rather simple but I think I wouldn't have managed to come up with a solution. My only complaint is that I wish there had been some more Poirot.

I was skeptical of this new narrator. But I grew quite fond of reading from someone else's perspective while Poirot is investigating. Agatha Christie never disappoints though!

A review from my old blog... I thought this book would fall along the lines of other books of hers that I've read and in many ways it did. In one significant way it did not. I don't know if this makes me enjoy the book more or not. This book is narrated by Nurse Leatherann in the first person rather than in the third person of the detective. Obviously, much of the detective work still came through the person of Nurse Leatherann but I did appreciate the story being told from another point of view. Unfortunately that one beneficial aspect did little to increase Agatha Christie's standing in my mind. While her books are not pedestrian in the least they do seem a little unbelievable. I noticed in this book that once again all of the suspects are confined within a certain area... in this case the archeological expedition... and the detective never has to stretch his deduction skills to include normal suspects that in real life would probably not stick around in order to be questioned.

I finally did it. I solved a Poirot case myself. :D (view spoiler)[Though the part with the theft took me by surprise. (hide spoiler)]

I was skeptical of this new narrator. But I grew quite fond of reading from someone else's perspective while Poirot is investigating. Agatha Christie never disappoints though!