The character of Dr Giles Reilly is dropped. Here the experiment in which nurse Leatheran gives a cry in Mrs Leidner's room is done by Hastings and not by Poirot. Leatheran is demoted from the protagonist and Poirot's assistant to a fairly minor supporting character and another suspect. Here he is made the uncle of one of the characters, William Coleman, thus reducing Amy Leatheran's contribution drastically. The characters are able to commute to and from Baghdad on day trips and Superintendent Maitland operates out of Baghdad instead of Hassanieh.īy far the biggest change is the addition of Captain Hastings. The location of the dig is still Tell Yarimjah, but this appears to be much nearer to Baghdad. It was published in English as a graphic novel in 2008, having been translated from the French edition of 2005, Meurtre en Mésopotamie.The adaptation is fairly faithful to the original novel with a few minor changes. 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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