Major Kelsey

In the novel Murder in Mesopotamia, Major Kelsey is Nurse Amy Leatheran's employer before she takes the job with Dr Leidner. Nurse Leatheran had attended Mrs Kelsey when she had a baby. Mrs Kelsey was delicate and nervous about travelling to Baghdad with such a young child, so Major Kelsey engaged Nurse Leatheran to travel with her, and look after her and the baby. They had already engaged a children's nurse in Baghdad, who had been with friends of theirs, the Wrights, for some years. The Wrights were to return to England, and their nurse had agreed to go to Mrs Kelsey when they left.