They Came to Baghdad

Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret superpower summit. Unfortunately the word is out, and an underground organisation in the Middle East is planning to sabotage the talks. Into this explosive situation skips Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded agent dies in her hotel room. Now, if only she could make sense of his final words 'Lucifer...Basrah...Lefarge...'

Year: 1951
Location: Middle East

Cast of characters

Andre, Richard (Owl) Baker, Mr. Bolford, Dr. Alan Breck, Mrs. Cardew Trench, Henry (Fakir) Carmichael, Sir Rupert Crofton Lee, Captain Crosbie, Mr. Dakin, Edward Goring, Mrs. Hamilton Clip, George Hamilton Clipp, Victoria Jones, Dr. John (Pussyfoot Jones) Pauncefoot Jones, Dr. Rathbone, Anna Scheele, Catherine Serakis, Lionel Shrivenham, Marcus Tio, Sheik Hussein el Ziyara

Publishing history

Publishing: First published in 1951 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London, and by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. The novel has not been adapted for stage or screen.

Notes and reviews

One of many books inspired by the author's time with her second husband Max Mallowan in the Middle East. They maintained a house for many years in Baghdad.

Murder methods:

Two Stabbings.

User Rating

How 'deadly' did you think this book was? Contribute your opinion to the user rating by first registering and logging in.

created by world archipelago

Terms and Conditions

© Agatha Christie Limited (a Chorion company)
(registered in England & Wales under company number 550864).
Registered address: 4th Floor, Aldwych House, 81 Aldwych,
London WC2B 4HN, United Kingdom.