They came to Baghdad - Agatha Christie [107]
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs
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THEY CAME TO BAGHDAD by Agatha Christie
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“Essay by Charles Osborne” excerpted from The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie. Copyright © 1982, 1999 by Charles Osborne. Reprinted with permission.
“Agatha Christie in Baghdad” excerpted from An Autobiography. Copyright © 1977 Agatha Christie Limited (a Chorion company)
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44 Agatha Christie: An Autobiography.
7 Leonard Woolley, whose work at Ur AC had read about in The Illustrated London News.
6 A busybody who had plagued the early part of AC’s journey.
5 Caliph of Baghdad, 786-809, when Baghdad was the centre of the civilised world.
4 Marjorie ‘Madge’ Watts, née Miller, AC’s older sister, a.k.a. ‘Punkie.’
3 Charlotte ‘Carlo’ Fisher was first engaged as secretary-governess by AC when Carlo was twenty-three; she and the author were to become dear friends.
2 AC’s daughter with Archibald Christie.
1 The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie (1982, 1999).
* Add, laugh, rejoice, bring nigh, show favour, gladden, give!