They Came to Baghdad

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Summary

Genre: Detective

Format: Novel

Location: Middle East

Synopsis

Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret superpower summit. Unfortunately the word is out, and an underground organisation in the Middle East is planning to sabotage the talks. Into this explosive situation skips Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded agent dies in her hotel room. Now, if only she could make sense of his final words 'Lucifer...Basrah...Lefarge...'

This novel is set in a city that Christie knew very well, and indeed had a house there for many years. Although a departure from her usual murder mysteries, it was well received and Anthony Boucher in The New York Times thought it was, “All in all, the most satisfactory novel in some years from one of the most satisfying of novelists.”

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