- Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Belgians
Nurse Amy Leatheran had never felt the lure of the ‘mysterious East,’ but she nonetheless accepts an assignment at Hassanieh, an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert, to care for the wife of a celebrated archaeologist.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1936
- Pages
- 248
- Publisher
- RBA Coleccionables, S.A., RBA, Dodd Mead
- Editions
- 108
- Language
- rum, English, Dutch, German
- ISBN
- 9789854280448
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“IN the hall of the Tigris Palace Hotel in Baghdad a hospital nurse was finishing a letter.”
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her hus
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