I started reading this, my first Agatha Christie novel, a few days ago, and I am totally into it! I haven’t really read many mystery novels, so this is kind of new to me. The characters so far are pretty interesting, and it’s fun to get the point of view of Hercule Poirot. I had no idea that Poirot was the detective in this novel. I just remember seeing Poirot on PBS a couple times, but never really watched a whole episode, nor did I know that he was the detective in Agatha Christie novels. At any rate, I am enjoying this mystery quite a bit. Early on, one of the characters mentions her trip from Baghdad, and throws in the names Mosul and Kirkuk, which was pretty interesting being that those cities’ names are in the news quite a bit these days.