She feels that it is her duty to help Poirot, and so when he drops his handkerchief, it feels just as natural for her to go and look for it, as it would have been for her to pick up a towel that a doctor had thrown on the floor.ĭr Leidner asks Nurse Leatheran to help him pack up all of Louise's clothes, to be given away. However, she gradually grows more confidence in him, and begins to feel as if Poirot is a surgeon performing an operation, and she is the nurse assisting him. When she first sees Poirot, she is doubtful about him and his ability to solve the case.

Louise then said that Nurse Leatheran was 'a treasure', and made her feel as if she were about six years old.Īfter Louise's death, Nurse Leatheran assists Hercule Poirot in his investigation.

Nurse Leatheran bathed her forehead and wrists with a cold sponge, and told Louise to tell her calmly and sensibly all about it. This caused Louise to laugh until tears streamed down her face. Nurse Leatheran deliberately reacted by not showing too much concern, as she felt that Louise was near enough to hysterics as it was. Louise Leidner liked Nurse Leatheran, and confided in her, telling her that she feared being killed. She is described as having an 'erect, confident bearing', and 'a good-humoured face with slightly prominent blue eyes and glossy brown hair'. Nurse Leatheran is thirty-two years old at the time of the events of Murder in Mesopotamia. While in Iraq she met an archaeologist, Dr Leidner, who employed her to look after his wife Louise. When she was in her early 30s she worked in Baghdad, after travelling with an English family there. She did some private work, and then worked for four years at Miss Bendix's Nursing Home at Devonshire Place. Christopher's Hospital, in London, and after that did two years maternity.

In Murder in Mesopotamia, she mentions that she did her training at St.

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