Agatha Christie was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. She married Archibald Christie in December 1914 but the couple were divorced in 1928. After he was sent to the Western Front in the First World War, she worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and in the chemist dispensary, giving her a working background knowledge of medicines and poisons. Christie's writing career began during the war after she was challenged by her sister to write a detective story. Murder in Mesopotamia was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 July 1936 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. At Tell Yamrijah, Louise Leidner is in fear for her life after a series of incidents at the expedition house. She lives there with her archaeologist husband, with whom his team are unearthing an Assyrian city. Eric Leidner perceives the incidents simply are Louise’s hallucinations. Opinions of her are divided among the seven people in the team. On the one hand, she seems to get along with them. On the other, allegations are made that tensions and jealousy between them are caused by her. Then she is murdered and everyone is a suspect. It turns out that each of them has a motive. Meanwhile, the murderer is ready to strike again… Listen online to free English audiobook "Murder in Mesopotamia” on our website to experience Agatha Christie's novel.
