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Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie

9 reviews

neverlandpages4's review

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Suicide, Mental illness, Grief, Classism, Stalking, Misogyny, Death, Emotional abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

hollystopreading's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I wasn’t found of some of the subtle sexist and racist sayings. However with older books you tend to expect them. Not by any means a bad book and worth the read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Drug abuse and Classism

kers_tin's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Misogyny, Biphobia, and Murder

bookishbutterfly's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Murder, Drug use, and Racism

Minor: Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Sexism, and Suicide

sunny_not's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

As always a quick and fun read. However, after reading so many of her books it has become easier to guess the killer. At one point I was like "it would have been better if

Dr. Leidner was the killer" and indeed he was. I really hated the way that he killed Miss Johnson it was too brutal and not like the deaths in her other books.

There were many of its time elements so that did make this less enjoyable but overall I liked it just not as much as some other books from her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Racism, Classism, Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Murder

poirot's review

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Grief and Racism

Minor: Bullying, Addiction, Drug use, and Suicide

midwifekt's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

If you can get over the rampant colonialism and very British Empire 1930s depiction of the region and the people in the region (thankfully not described much, unlike in certain other Christie books), this one is pretty good.

Bonus points for the narrator being a nurse. Despite being almost 100 years later, some incidental observation  she made about being a nurse were still dead accurate to the present day. My very favorite was when

Poirot has her get out of the way to interview a suspect alone, and she's like "yeah but I'm listening in because while the doctor might make the decisions the nurse needs to know <i>everything</i> about the case." And like, have there been times I've listened outside the door when the doctor got to a room to talk to a patient without me so I knew how the conversation went because I was going to be the one who hit all the follow-up questions?  Yes there have. That was spot on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Misogyny, Murder, and Racism

Moderate: Addiction and Drug use

ijustreallyliketrees's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Racial slurs and Misogyny

Minor: Addiction, Racism, and Suicide

mrkdk's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Transphobia, Misogyny, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia