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THEY CAME TO BAGHDAD : (Dell, 18700)
de Agatha Christie
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0440187001
- ISBN 13
- 9780440187004
- Librería
-
Berkeley, California, United States
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New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1974. First Edition, 10th Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW, showing margin discoloration. Softcover/VG/ sound; shelfworn w/surface wear; surface loss to upper front, chips to lower edge & humidity stain to upper back. Text blocks dyed green. Historical, international espionage set in 1950 Baghdad, Irag. First published 1951; this is a 1980 reprint. Agatha Christie (1980 - 1976) visited Iraq frequently from 1930's onwards with her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan. Book enriched with scenes true to life. It is 1950. Preliminary arrangements were being made for Badhdad to host a yet secret summit meeting of world leaders. At the same time young, beautiful, and headstrong Victoria Jones quits London for Baghdad to suprise her ew love whom she barely knows. Answering a knock on her hotel door, a wounded British intelligence agent staggers to die on her bed, in her arms --- his last words were: "Lucifer. ... Basrah ... Lefarge". Read the book to know what follows. Know historically, Iraq's British imposed Hashemite Monarchy was overthrown 1958 (14 July Revolution; USA presided by Eisenhower), with King Faisal II & family executed in the Rihab Palace's courtyard, and, Iraq withdrew from the Bagdad Pact to establish friendly relations with the USSR. Strong copy in a tired softcover.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- 100 POCKETS
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 019998
- Título
- THEY CAME TO BAGHDAD : (Dell, 18700)
- Autor
- Agatha Christie
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None as Issued
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, 10th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0440187001
- ISBN 13
- 9780440187004
- Editorial
- Bantam Doubleday Dell
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1974
- Palabras clave
- Crime/Espionage/International/Baghdad/Iraq/Middle East
- Catálogos del vendedor
- International Relations;
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