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Murder in Mesopotamia : a Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie.

So this is the first time I read Christie in English but this feels just like reading her in French translation back in the day. It's another house whodunnit except this time the house is an archæological base by a fictional northern Iraq/South Kurdistan tell. The "natives" are unintelligible artefacts who the spoiler bad guys try to blame for the murder. This time the narrator is a nurse who was brought in to look after the woman who was murdered. Half the book is about assigning people characteristics based on their ethnicity (many characters are Americans, some with German roots), which tracks with random conversations you'll have when visiting Europe even today. The word "Kurdish" was mentioned once, and I don't think it'll be mentioned again. They're close to Mosul or something.

I'm kind of a sucker for this junk food.