 Dust-jacket illustration of the first UK edition | |
| Author | Agatha Christie |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | No artwork |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Adventure novel / Political thriller |
| Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | 5 March 1951 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 256 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| Preceded by | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
| Followed by | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
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[1] and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.[2][3] The UK edition retailed at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6)[4] and the US edition at $2.50.[3]
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.
- ^ The Observer, 4 March 1951 (p. 7)
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b American Tribute to Agatha Christie
- ^ Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon. Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions. Dragonby Press (Second Edition) March 1999 (p. 15).