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They Came to Baghdad
by Agatha Christie
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good-
- Seller
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San Rafael, California, United States
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About This Item
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 and corners. No internal markings. Hinge is tight. Dust jacket has chipping and bending along top edges and some soiling and scuffing.
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Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Town Books of San Anselmo
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 457
- Title
- They Came to Baghdad
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Format/Binding
- Green cloth red titles and Red Badge emblem on spine and cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Pages
- 218
- Size
- 5 3/4 x 8 1/4
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mystery fiction, Middle East, spies, espionage, kidnapping
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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