{"id":8917,"date":"2013-08-10T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T06:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=8917"},"modified":"2013-08-09T19:56:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T01:56:30","slug":"telefilm-review-murder-mesopotamia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/telefilm-review-murder-mesopotamia\/","title":{"rendered":"Telefilm Review: Murder in Mesopotamia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=adamsblog03-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B00005KH4B&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While on vacation in Iraq, Poirot meets up with an archaeologist and his wife. The wife confides in Poirot that she fears her former husband, a traitor who was declared dead, but was secretly alive and menaced nearly every relationship she entered after his apparent death until she met and married her husband. She gives Poirot a threatening letter she received. Before Poirot can get to the bottom of it, she&#8217;s murdered.<\/p>\n<p>This is a solidly told mystery with a great surprise ending that is thoroughly well-adapted. The second episode of the eight series is noteworthy for being the last episode to date featuring Hugh Frasier as Captain Hastings, though he&#8217;s expected to appear the 13th series episodes, <em>The Big Four<\/em> and <em>Curtain<\/em>. The Hastings character wasn&#8217;t in the original book and he didn&#8217;t add much to this adaptation, so it was definitely time to move on.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 4.5 out of 5.0<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post, you can have new posts about Detective stories and the golden age of radio and television delivered\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004U8SET2\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=adamsblog03-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004U8SET2\">automatically to your Kindle<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0This post contains affiliate links, which means that items purchased from these links may result in a commission being paid to the author of this post at no extra cost to the purchaser.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on vacation in Iraq, Poirot meets up with an archaeologist and his wife. The wife confides in Poirot that she fears her former husband, a traitor who was declared dead, but was secretly alive and menaced nearly every relationship she entered after his apparent death until she met and married her husband. 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