They Came To Baghdad

by Christie, Agatha

E-book exclusive extras: 'Agatha Christie in Baghdad,' extensive selections from Agatha Christie: An Autobiography. Plus: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on They Came to Baghdad.Agatha Christie first visited Baghdad as a tourist in 1927; many years later she would become a resident of the exotic and then open city, and it was here, and while on archaeological digs throughout Iraq with her husband, Sir Max Mallowan, that Agatha Christie wrote some of her most important works.They Came to Baghdad is one of Agatha Christie's highly successful forays into the spy thriller genre. In this novel, Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret superpower summit. But the word is out, and an underground organisation is plotting to sabotage the talks.Into this explosive situation stumbles Victoria Jones, a young woman with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded secret agent dies in her hotel room. Now, if only she could make sense of his final words: 'Lucifer... Basrah... Lefarge...'

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London: The Thriller Book Club, Collins, 1951. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good Only. 7.5" by 5". None. An uncommon issue of Agatha Christie's adventure thriller, inspired by her own trips to Baghdad with her second husband. Published by Collins' 'Thriller Club' imprint the same year as her true first edition issued by the Crime Club. Whilst Agatha Christie is… Read more about this item
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London: The Thriller Book Club. No inscriptions, minor wear. This book was first published by Collins Crime Club in the same year as this publication. Good reading copy. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 1951.
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1966. Book Club Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo, light green cloth with red lettering on spine and red badge on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting striking line drawings of turbaned fiugres and a woman in silhouette, red topstain by publisher, 218 pages. SUPERIOR CONDITION internally &… Read more about this item
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They Came To Baghdad (Greenway Edition) Dodd, Mead. States "First published in the Greenway Edition 1970. No number line appears. By Agatha Christie. USED. As New/VG- unclipped $8.95 dust jacket with 12 on dj spine. Spine is sunned. Plot Summary: Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret summit of superpowers, concerned but not convinced, about the development of an,… Read more about this item
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AGATHA CHRISTIE THEY CAME TO BAGHDAD. Dell Publishing Co., New York, 1965. Condition: Very Good. True First Edition from Dell Publishing with 45 cents on the cover and Dell issue #8700. Mild shelf wear and light rubbing/staining on top of back cover. Light creases on front and back, minor chips on spine/corners typical of vintage pulp fiction books of… Read more about this item
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London: The Crime Club, by Collins, 1951 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Fair. 8" by 5.5". None. The first edition of this standalone political thriller by Queen of Crime Agatha Christie. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.'They Came to Baghdad' was inspired by Agatha's own trips to Baghdad with her… Read more about this item
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This is the softcover stated New Dell Edition from March 1980. Other than a bit of cover creasing, a tiny paper tear at the bottom of the spine, and ex lib markings on the inside back cover, the book is in excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, etc.--and the pages and binding are tight (see photo). **Note: All… Read more about this item
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1951
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A 'Red Badge' thriller, Christie takes the reader on a thrilling ride to Baghdad where spies, counterspies, adventurers and villians clash. Young Victoria Jones, in Baghdad to join her lover is thrown into the middle of the chaos and is determined to solve the mysteries and intrigues that threaten world peace. Binding has only a few small bumps to edges… Read more about this item
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