Murder in Mesopotamia

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

De: Agatha Christie

Narrado por: Anna Massey

Nurse Amy Leatheran had never felt the lure of the "mysterious East", but she nonetheless accepts an assignment at Hassanieh, an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert, to care for the wife of a celebrated archaeologist. Mrs Leidner is suffering bizarre visions and nervous terror.

"I'm afraid of being killed!" she admits to her nurse. Her terror, unfortunately, is anything but unfounded, and Nurse Leatheran is soon enough without a patient.

The world's greatest detective happens to be in the vicinity, however: having concluded an assignment in Syria, and curious about the dig at Hassanieh, Hercule Poirot arrives in time to lead a murder investigation that will tax even his remarkable powers - and in a part of the world that has seen more than its share of misadventure and foul play.

©1936 Agatha Christie Limited (P)2002 HarperCollins Publishers

Excellent

One of Agatha Christie's very clever works. Really enjoyable novel in an exotic eastern setting.

very enjoyable

nice change to have the narration be from a women's perspective. somehow much more fitting for Agatha. great twist! loved it

Amazing story, but fantastic narration

This has been one of my favorite Agatha Christie books. The narration took some getting used to, but the story was worth it.

One of my favorites

Love the reader, she does an excellent job bringing the story and the characters to life!

Agatha is always a Fun Experience

It has been a very long time since my last Agatha Christie, and this was an excellent choice to revisit her. This book was full of suspicious characters, a wonderful exotic setting and intriguing mystery. I love it when Hercule Poirot brings everyone together in a room to review all the motives and reveal the murderer. I was surprised by the ending, but there were plenty of clues for me to figure it out.

I only gave it 4 stars because I sometimes got lost in all the different characters. This is the main problem with audio books that you have to rewind over and over to get a feeling for each character and how they all fit together.

Otherwise, it was a very enjoyable experience.

So-so

This story was pretty good, but the narrator's version of Poirot was terrible. Her distinction between character voices was good.

Classic Agatha Christie.

This is classic Christie and early Poirot. Good performance by narrator. She has a very pleasant voice, though her accents were a little distracting sometimes. It's one of Christie's earlier works.

Wonderful experience

I truly enjoyed the audible rendition of this book! The narrator did an amazing job switching between characters. The characters voices were similar to the BBC radio broadcasting of this book.

Good job!

I enjoy this story, and I have to give credit to Anna Massey for making M Poirot sound better than most that I have heard. Most people doing M Poirot's voice sound like people "doing" a French accent... but he truly sounds foreign in this reading.

I enjoyed listening to the story, and glad to have it in my collection.

Such a shame

The terrible accents are a huge distraction. Combined with the overly slow, deliberate, overpronunciation throughout, this is pretty much unlistenable once Poirot shows up. There are SO MANY voice actors who are actually able to pronounce “Hercule” correctly… it’s a shame none of them were hired for this recording.