They Came to Baghdad
They came to Baghdad (AKA They Came to Baghdad ) is the 41th novel by Agatha Christie. He first appeared in the UK on 5 March 1951 at the Collins Crime Club and later in the same year in the U.S. at Dodd, Mead and Company. The German edition was by Scherz Verlag (Bern) launched in 1953 with the translation of Hedwig of Wurzian used to date.
The novel was inspired by Christie's own travels to Baghdad with her second husband, the archaeologist Max Mallowan and is one of the few the author of a spy novel is more than a classic detective novel. Other examples of this genre in the works of the author are a dangerous opponent, the man in the brown suit and Passenger to Frankfurt.
Action
A secret summit meeting of the leaders of the superpowers to be held in Baghdad. But the plans have been betrayed and so wants a fascist underground organization to sabotage the meeting. Things get complicated when the young enthusiastic tourist Victoria Jones finds the dying British agent Henry " Fakir " Carmichael at their hotel. His last words are: " Lucifer - Basra - Lefarge ... "
Victoria begins with our own investigations. She discovers that Lucifer refers to her alleged lover, Edward, who is behind the conspiracy, and Basra said the city of Basra. In Lefarge turns out that she has understood the name wrong and Madame Defarge is meant a character from Charles Dickens ' novel A Tale of Two Cities (A Tale of Two Cities ), the camouflaged messages had knitted. The scarf also Camouflaged Carmichael gives an indication of where important documents are hidden. The documents are found in a sheikh in Kerbala and may be presented at the Summit.
Victoria goes with Richard back to the excavations and the two become a couple.
People
- Victoria Jones, a young typist, beautiful and intelligent
- Henry Carmichael, a courageous British agent
- Richard Baker, a young and intelligent archaeologist
- Pauncefoot Jones, a famous archaeologist, a bit confused
- Rathbone, leader of a gang of smugglers
- Dakin, head of British intelligence
Important issues
Films
This romance is one of the few novels by Christie, which have not been filmed.
Audiobooks
- 2005 They came to Baghdad (3 CDs): abridged reading. Translated from English by Tanja trade. Read by Susanne Schröder. Director: Toni Nirschl; The Hörverlag (Munich )
- 2008 They came to Baghdad (5 CDs): only unabridged reading. Speaker: Hans Eckardt. Director: Markus Langer. Translation from the English wife of Wurzian. Publishing and Studio for Hörbuchproduktionen (Marburg)