They Came To Baghdad

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By Agatha Christie

Victoria Jones is a London typist with a talent for invention and no money, and she follows a young man she has just met to Baghdad on almost no evidence that it is a good idea.

She arrives days before a secret summit between the world powers, and a man stumbles into her hotel room with a knife in his back and one word before he dies. Christie knew the city well: she spent years there on archaeological digs with her husband Max Mallowan, and wrote some of her best-known books on them.

First published 1951