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They Came To Baghdad
by Christie, Agatha
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- first
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About This Item
London: Collins, 1951. A first edition, first printing published by Collins in 1951. A near fine with a name and date to the front endpaper. In a very good complete and unclipped wrapper a little faded to the spine. Some light chipping to the spine tips and corners. Rare in this complete state of the wrapper.
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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- Bookseller
- John Atkinson Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15190
- Title
- They Came To Baghdad
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
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