Consequently, the key 'Bosner suspects' become Father Lavingny, Mr. Emmot are removed the first, due to the fact that Nurse Leatheran's role is reduced and the others because they didn't really serve any purpose other than provide potential candidates for Bosner's brother. Mercado kills an Arab drug dealer (later scenes will link up to this, too). It gets worse, because the resolution of the matter is that she has fled the scene and he is left paying her hotel bill! It's all very strange. I could agree that Poirot would go to extremes to help the Countess, but would he really go all the way to Mesopotamia just because she says she needs his help? I can't really see that happening. Now, if adding Hastings doesn't stretch credibility, then this certainly does. Moreover, Poirot visits the area not because he is on holiday, but because Countess Vera Rossakoff asked him to. Much like in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, her main function becomes that of a further suspect. This, of course, significantly reduces the role of Nurse Leatheran - the narrator of the novel. For one, Hastings is added (a massive strain of credibility, if you ask me, but there it is). It was adapted for television by Clive Exton (in his final Poirot outing!) and directed by Tom Clegg.Įxton stays more or less faithful to the source material, with some exceptions. It was published in English as a graphic novel in 2008, having been translated from the French edition of 2005, Meurtre en Mésopotamie.This episode was based on the novel Murder in Mesopotamia, first published in 1936. The story was also dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 2005, featuring John Moffatt as Poirot. Hastings was added to the story, played by Hugh Fraser, and becomes the uncle of one of the characters. Robin Macartnay who acted as draughtsman on the Mallowan's own digs, illustrated the jacket for the Collins Crime Club edition.Ī TV adaptation was broadcast in 2001 as part of the series starring David Suchet. The cast of characters in Murder in Mesopotamia is largely derived from the people she met, including the fierce and determined Katherine Woolley, who first introduced the couple, and whose tempestuous nature is likely to have inspired the victim in the novel.
It isn’t long before a murder interrupts the progress of the dig and Nurse Leatheran requests Poirot’s assistance.īy 1936, Christie had frequently travelled with her husband Max Mallowan on his archaeological digs. Full of rich detail from Christie’s own travels in the Middle East, Murder in Mesopotamia sees Poirot on an archaeological expedition, not unlike those his author attended.
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