And Then There Were 48: Murder In Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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It’s time for Dame Agatha’s first Middle Eastern-set novel! And while there is much to discuss here (including the fascinating real-life inspiration for our murder victim), unfortunately there wasn't quite as much to love in either the novel or the Suchet adaptation. Still, it wasn’t nearly as bad as drinking a glass of hydrochloric acid!

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:09.6	mystery novel by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie. I'm Kemper Donovan. I'm
0:15.2	Catherine Broback. And this week we are discussing a novel and that novel is
0:21.2	Murder in Mesopotamia our latest Poirot.
0:25.0	Catherine Brobeck, give us a little soup song about the publishing history of this one.
0:30.0	Not actually very much interesting about this publishing history. It was published on July 6th,
0:36.4	1936 in the UK, subsequently in the U.S. So yeah. the Supsoniest soup's own that there ever was.
0:46.0	Indeed.
0:47.0	All right, well, let's get right to the victim.
0:49.0	We do technically have two victims here, but we have a main victim,
0:52.0	and I would like to tackle this one
0:54.0	because don't get alarmed Catherine but I have a little bit of autobiography to
0:58.9	cover when it comes to this victim because this is a little bit of a special case.
1:02.8	I get sometimes a little bit alarmed, but you know what, go for it.
1:07.4	Get out your smelling salts because you might need them.
1:10.6	Kemper is on an autobiography tear. So Louise Leidner is our
1:16.3	victim here and she's an older lady, the West noted several times. Although I
1:21.5	want to be very clear, I think she's 35.
1:25.0	I know.
1:26.0	Well, for Christie, I mean, remember, Catherine Gray, Mystery of the Blue Train, 33,
1:31.0	not no longer in the first bloom of her life never forget.
1:35.0	I don't.
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