Agatha Christie

They Came to Baghdad

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Produktbeschreibung

Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the talks. Into this explosive situation appears Victoria Jones, a young woman with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded spy dies in her hotel room. The only man who can save the summit is dead. Can Victoria make sense of his dying words: Lucifer...Basrah...Lefarge....

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 136mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 232g
• ISBN-13: 9780062073785
• ISBN-10: 0062073788
• Artikelnr.: 32462674

Autorenporträt

Agatha Christie is the world's best selling mystery writer. After several rejections, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published to instant acclaim, launching what became the unparalleled career of "The Queen of Mystery." Over the course of more than half a century she wrote eighty crime novels and short story collections, nineteen plays, and several poetry collections. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in the English language and another billion in a hundred other languages. Agatha Christie died in 1976.

? Angus Mc Bean (National Portrait Gallery, London)

Rezensionen

'A very human heroine, whose powers of invention, just like those of her creator, never fail her'
Times Literary Supplement

'The acknowledged queen of detective fiction.'
The Observer