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From London to Iraq on the Trail of Agatha Christie and the Orient Express
Overlook
May 2006
On Sale: May 2, 2006
401 pages
ISBN: 1585678023
EAN: 9781585678020
Paperback (reprint)
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In 1928, Agatha Christie—the world’s most widely read
author—was a thirty-something single mother. With her first
marriage falling apart, she has decided to take a
much-needed holiday—the Caribbean has been her intended
destination, but her mind was changed during a dinner
conversation, and five days later she was off on a
completely different trajectory. Merging literary biography with travel adventure, and
ancient history with contemporary world events, Andrew Eames
tell a riveting tale and reveals fascinating and
little-known details of this exotic chapter in the life
Agatha Christie. His own trip from London to Baghdad—a
journey much more difficult in 2002, with the political
unrest in the Middle East, than it was in 1928—becomes
ineluctably intertwined with Christie’s, and the characters
he meets seem like they could have stepped out of a mystery
novel. Fans of Agatha Christie will delight in Eames’s descriptions
of the places and events that appeared in and influenced her
fiction, and armchair travelers will thrill in the exotica
of the journey itself.
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