Delicious Death

UK

Collins, London, Jul. 1936

Women's Pictorial, Feb.8-Mar.28 1936 as 'No Other Love'

US

Dodd, Mead, New York, 1936

The Saturday Evening Post, Nov.9-Dec.14 1935

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS should be read before MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA.

Plot

It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig; something associated with the presence of 'Lovely Louise', wife of celebrated archaeologist, Dr Leidner.
In a few days' time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late...

Contents

Foreword by Giles Reilly, M.D. • 1. Frontispiece • 2. Introducing Amy Leatheran • 3. Gossip • 4. I Arrive in Hassanieh • 5. Tell Yarimjah • 6. First Evening • 7. The Man at the Window • 8. Night Alarm • 9. Mrs Leidner's Story • 10. Saturday Afternoon • 11. An Old Business • 12. 'I Didn't Believe ...' • 13. Hercule Poirot Arrives • 14. One of Us? • 15. Poirot Makes a Suggestion • 16. The Suspects • 17. The Stain by the Washstand • 18. Tea at Dr Reilly's • 19. A New Suspicion • 20. Miss Johnson, Mrs Mercado, Mr Reiter • 21. Mr Mercado, Richard Carey • 22. David Emmott, Father Lavigny and a Discovery • 23. I Go Psychic • 24. Murder is a Habit • 25. Suicide or Murder • 26. Next It Will Be Me! • 27. Beginning of a Journey • 28. Journey's End • 29. L'Envoi

Films & TV

Murder in Mesopotamia, ITV/UK, 2002

Agahta Christie's POIROT VIII