![]() ![]() ![]() There’s the expected exoticizing of the setting and its local population, but also plenty of slurs and casually derogatory remarks about dark-skinned and non-English-speaking people in general. ![]() I’ve read over two dozen Christie books by now, and this one is the worst offender I’ve seen. Moreover, the entire text is incredibly racist, even by the standards of this writer and her era. But it’s hardly the only possible explanation that would, which renders the offered certainty of the affair pretty unsatisfying. Does the answer fit the available facts? Sure, more or less. It’s an instance too of the investigator making deductions that seem like interpretive guesswork instead of reasoned entailments of particular clues on the ground. Yet I don’t feel bad, because it really is supremely ridiculous. ![]() Despite spotting the culprit early on, I didn’t come anywhere near figuring out the whole extended motive. (The action actually starts a bit earlier, as the story is narrated by a different character already at the scene - more on her below.) What ensues is a fairly standard case for the little Belgian detective, with two critical caveats.įirst, the ultimate solution to the mystery is one of author Agatha Christie’s most outlandish yet. This 1936 novel sends Hercule Poirot to the site of an archaeological dig in Iraq, where a member of the expedition has just been murdered. Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #14) ![]()
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