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They Came to Baghdad : ウィキペディア英語版 | They Came to Baghdad
''They Came to Baghdad'' is an adventure novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 5 March 1951〔''The Observer'', 4 March 1951 (p. 7)〕 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.〔John Cooper and B. A. Pyke. ''Detective Fiction – the collector's guide'': Second Edition (pp. 82, 87) Scholar Press. 1994. ISBN 0-85967-991-8.〕〔(American Tribute to Agatha Christie )〕 The UK edition retailed at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6)〔Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon. ''Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions''. Dragonby Press (Second Edition) March 1999 (p. 15).〕 and the US edition at $2.50.〔 The book was inspired by Christie's own trips to Baghdad with her second husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, and is also one of few Christie novels belonging to the action and spy fiction genres, rather than to mysteries and whodunnits. ==Plot summary== A secret summit of superpowers is to be held in Baghdad, but it is no longer secret. A shadowy group (which is both anti-Communist and anti-Capitalist) is plotting to sabotage the event. Things get complicated when enthusiastic young "adventurer" Victoria Jones discovers a dying secret British agent – Henry "Fakir" Carmichael – in her hotel room. His last words – "Lucifer...Basrah...Lefarge" – propel her into investigation. "Lucifer" refers to the mastermind, Victoria's false lover Edward, who is behind the plot. "Basrah" is the city where Carmichael saw Edward and recognised him as an enemy. "Lefarge" turns out to actually be "Defarge" and is a reference to a Charles Dickens character; it is an allusion to the fact that the name of a vital witness has been stitched into a scarf.
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