title: Murder in Mesopotamia (Poirot)
author:  Agatha Christie 
description: 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. In a few days' time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late!
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  Murder in  
  
  
  Mesopotamia
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Hercule Poirot Mystery
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Dedication](part0003.html#toc_dedication)
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Dedicated to  
  
  
  My many archaeological friends  
  
  
  in Iraq and Syria
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Foreword](part0003.html#toc_foreword)
  
  
  
  
  
  by Giles Reilly, MD
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  The events chronicled in this narrative took place some four years ago.
  Circumstances have rendered it necessary, in my opinion, that a
  straightforward account of them should be given to the public. There have been
  the wildest and most ridiculous rumours suggesting that important evidence was
  suppressed and other nonsense of that kind. Those misconstructions have
  appeared more especially in the American Press.
  
  
  
  
  
  For obvious reasons it was desirable that the account should not come from the
  pen of one of the expedition staff, who might reasonably be supposed to be
  