{"id":2381,"date":"2026-01-03T22:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/murder-in-mesopotamia-christie-agatha\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:26:27","slug":"murder-in-mesopotamia-christie-agatha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/murder-in-mesopotamia-christie-agatha\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder in Mesopotamia – Christie, Agatha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Foreword<\/span><\/p>\n

by Giles Reilly, MD<\/p>\n

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T<\/span>he events chronicled in this narrative took place some four years ago. Circumstances have rendered it necessary, in my opinion, that a straightforward account of them should be given to the public. There have been the wildest and most ridiculous rumours suggesting that important evidence was suppressed and other nonsense of that kind. Those misconstructions have appeared more especially in the American Press.<\/p>\n

For obvious reasons it was desirable that the account should not come from the pen of one of the expedition staff, who might reasonably be supposed to be prejudiced.<\/p>\n

I therefore suggested to Miss\u00a0Amy Leatheran that she should undertake the task. She is obviously the person to do it. She had a professional character of the highest, she is not biased by having any previous connection with the University of Pittstown Expedition to Iraq and she was an observant and intellectual eyewitness.<\/p>\n

It was not very easy to persuade Miss\u00a0Leatheran to undertake this task\u2014in fact, persuading her was one of the hardest jobs of my professional career\u2014and even after it was completed she displayed a curious reluctance to let me see the manuscript. I discovered that this was partly due to some critical remarks she had made concerning my daughter Sheila. I soon disposed of that, assuring her that as children criticize their parents freely in print nowadays, parents are only too delighted when their offspring come in for their share of abuse! Her other objection was extreme modesty about her literary style. She hoped I would \u201cput the grammar right and all that.\u201d I have, on the contrary, refused to alter so much as a single word. Miss\u00a0Leatheran\u2019s style in my opinion is vigorous, individual and entirely apposite. If she calls Hercule Poirot \u201cPoirot\u201d in one paragraph and \u201cMr.\u00a0Poirot\u201d in the next, such a variation is both interesting and suggestive. At one moment she is, so to speak, \u201cremembering her manners\u201d (and hospital nurses are great sticklers for etiquette) and at the next her interest in what she is telling is that of a pure human being\u2014cap and cuffs forgotten!<\/p>\n

The only thing I have done is to take the liberty of writing a first chapter\u2014aided by a letter kindly supplied by one of Miss\u00a0Leatheran\u2019s friends. It is intended to be in the nature of a frontispiece\u2014that is, it gives a rough sketch of the narrator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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