Book description
An archaeologist's wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris
in Iraq…
It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at
the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; 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… Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became,
quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The
Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World
War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular
detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known
throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a
billion copies in the English language and another billion in 100
foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story
collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
