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HP14 - Murder in Mesopotamia
Agatha Christie
FOREWORD BY GILES REILLY, M.D.
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 has 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
intelligent 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
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