Murder in Mesopotamia - Agatha Christie [0]
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in Iraq and Syria
Contents
About Agatha Christie
The Agatha Christie Collection
Foreword by Giles Reilly, MD
Chapter01 Frontispiece
Chapter02 Introducing Amy Leatheran
Chapter03 Gossip
Chapter04 I Arrive in Hassanieh
Chapter05 Tell Yarimjah
Chapter06 First Evening
Chapter07 The Man at the Window
Chapter08 Night Alarm
Chapter09 Mrs Leidner’s Story
Chapter10 Saturday Afternoon
Chapter11 An Odd Business
Chapter12 ‘I Didn’t Believe…’
Chapter13 Hercule Poirot Arrives
Chapter14 One of Us?
Chapter15 Poirot Makes a Suggestion
Chapter16 The Suspects
Chapter17 The Stain by the Washstand
Chapter18 Tea at Dr Reilly’s
Chapter19 A New Suspicion
Chapter20 Miss Johnson, Mrs Mercado, Mr Reiter
Chapter21 Mr Mercado, Richard Carey
Chapter22 David Emmott, Father Lavigny and a Discovery
Chapter23 I Go Psychic
Chapter24 Murder is a Habit
Chapter25 Suicide or Murder
Chapter26 Next It Will Be Me!
Chapter27 Beginning of a Journey
Chapter28 Journey’s End
Chapter29 L’Envoi
Credits
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About the Publisher
About Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in 100 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Mrs Christie is the author of eighty crime novels and short story collections, nineteen plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.
Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was written towards the end of World War I (during which she served in the Voluntary Aid Detachments). In it she created Hercule Poirot, the little Belgian investigator who was destined to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. After having been rejected by a number of houses, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was eventually published by The Bodley Head in 1920.
In 1926, now averaging a book a year, Agatha Christie wrote her masterpiece. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was the first of her books to be published by William Collins and marked the beginning of an author-publisher relationship that lasted for fifty years and produced over seventy books. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was also the first of Agatha Christie’s works to be dramatised—as Alibi—and to have a successful run in London’s West End. The Mousetrap, her most famous play, opened in 1952 and runs to this day at St Martin’s Theatre in the West End; it is the longest-running play in history.
Agatha Christie was made a Dame in 1971. She died in 1976, since when a number of her books have been published: the bestselling novel Sleeping Murder appeared in 1976, followed by An Autobiography and the short story collections Miss Marple’s Final Cases; Problem at Pollensa Bay; and While the Light Lasts. In 1998, Black Coffee was the first of her plays to be novelised by Charles Osborne, Mrs Christie’s biographer.
The Agatha Christie Collection
Christie Crime Classics
The Man in the Brown Suit
The Secret of Chimneys
The Seven Dials Mystery
The Mysterious Mr Quin
The Sittaford Mystery
The Hound of Death
The Listerdale Mystery
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
Parker Pyne Investigates
Murder Is Easy
And Then There Were None
Towards Zero
Death Comes as the End
Sparkling Cyanide
Crooked House
They Came to Baghdad
Destination Unknown
Spider’s Web *
The Unexpected Guest *
Ordeal by Innocence
The Pale Horse
Endless Night
Passenger To Frankfurt
Problem at Pollensa Bay
While the Light Lasts
Hercule Poirot Investigates
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Murder on the Links
Poirot Investigates
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Big Four
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Black Coffee *
Peril at End House
Lord Edgware Dies
Murder on the Orient Express
Three-Act Tragedy
Death in the Clouds
The ABC Murders
Murder in Mesopotamia
Cards on the