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Title:
Murder In Mesopotamia
Author:
Agatha Chistie
Main
Characters: Amy Leatheran, Mr.Mercado, Mrs.Mercado, Hercule Poirot, Dr.Leidner, Miss Johnson, Mr.Reiter, Mr.Emmot, Father Lavigny, Richard Carey, Federick
Bonser, William, Mrs.Leidner.
Description
of one of the main characters: Father Lavigny is actually Raoul Menier, one of
the cleverest thieves known to the French police. He specializes in thefts from
museums of objects, art and such like. He steals Dr.Leidner's gold dagger and
several other things and replaces them with clever electrotypes.
Whom
I like and why: I like Hercule Poirot very much. He is a private detective.
He is very clever and smart. He has the talent to recreate the past. He sees
things which most of them miss to look at. He always worries about the smallest
problems while solving a case. He has
his own style of finding solutions to cases.
Whom
I dislike and Why: I dislike Dr.Leidner, alias Frederick Bosner. He is a foolish
man. Frederick Bosner changes his name, after pretending he was dead, to
Dr.Leidner. He killed Mrs.Leidner his own wife and also Miss. Jhonson as she found out that it was
Dr.Leidner who killed his wife.
Setting/Theme
of the Story: Mrs.Leidner sees strange things and is constantly troubled by the
letters from her old, dead husband, Frederick Bonser. So, Dr.Leidner, an
archaeologist and husband of Mrs.Zeidner, calls Amy Leatheran, a nurse, to look
after his wife. Soon Amy Leatheran finds out that Mrs.Leidner is afraid of
someone. That day, Mrs. Leidner shows her nurse the letters from Bosner, which
threatened to kill her if she married anyone else except Bosner. She is afraid
because she had already married Leidner after Bosner died. She also confides to
nurse Leatheran that she suspects Bosner to be still alive. That day, she is
murdered. Hercule Pirot, a private detective is called to investigate on the
murder. Poirot questions everybody and starts investigating. The next day
Miss.Johnson is murdered. Her last words according to Amy Leatheran were
‘window’. With this single clue Poirot finds the murderer of Mrs.Leidner and
Miss.Johnson. the solution was that Mr.Leidner was actually Frederick Bosner.
When he escaped, he changed his name into Dr.Leidner and became an
archaeologist. He married his old wife, who did not recognise him. He sent her
threatening letters. When Mrs. Leidner married Dr.Leidner even after the
letters came, he was true to his word and he killed her. He killed her through
the ‘window’. He could do so because his office and his wife’s room were on the same line. Miss.Johnson came to know about this, so he killed her also. Poirot
declares that this is what he thinks happened, but he says he has no proof.
Dr.Leidner accepts and feels sorry for both the murders done by him.
Part
I enjoyed the most: I enjoyed the part when Amy Leatheran, the nurse, comes to
Mr.Zeidner’s house to take care of Mrs.Leidner.
