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Dedicated to
My many archaeological friends
in Iraq and Syria
Contents
About Agatha Christie
The Agatha Christie Collection
E-book Extras
Foreword by Giles Reilly, MD
1 Frontispiece
2 Introducing Amy Leatheran
3 Gossip
4 I Arrive in Hassanieh
5 Tell Yarimjah
6 First Evening
7 The Man at the Window
8 Night Alarm
9 Mrs Leidner’s Story
10 Saturday Afternoon
11 An Odd Business
12 ‘I Didn’t Believe…’
13 Hercule Poirot Arrives
14 One of Us?
15 Poirot Makes a Suggestion
16 The Suspects
17 The Stain by the Washstand
18 Tea at Dr Reilly’s
19 A New Suspicion
20 Miss Johnson, Mrs Mercado, Mr Reiter
21 Mr Mercado, Richard Carey
22 David Emmott, Father Lavigny and a Discovery
23 I Go Psychic
24 Murder is a Habit
25 Suicide or Murder
26 Next It Will Be Me!
27 Beginning of a Journey
28 Journey’s End
29 L’Envoi
Copyright
www.agathachristie.com
About the Publisher
Foreword
by Giles Reilly, MD
The 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.
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.
I therefore suggested to Miss Amy 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 eye-witness.
It was not very easy to persuade Miss Leatheran to undertake this task—in fact, persuading her was one of the hardest jobs of my professional career—and 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 ‘put the grammar right and all that.’ I ............

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