And Then There Were 26: They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Real talk: this is not one of our favorite Christies. Alas. But it features some excellent scene setting in and among Baghdad and Basrah; whenever Christie takes us to the Middle East, we know we're in good hands as far as mise en scène goes. We just wish we could say the same about the plot (or lack thereof), and the characters populating this globe-trotting thriller....

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every
0:09.2	simple mystery novel written by the Queen of Prime, Day Maga the Christie.
0:13.4	I'm Kepin Brobeck.
0:14.7	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:15.7	And this week we are doing a novel episode,
0:18.7	which we are always excited about.
0:21.1	Today we are covering, They Came to Baghdad.
0:24.0	Mm-hmm.
0:25.0	Christie, mid-career thriller, and a globe trotting one at that.
0:30.0	We have not been in this zone of Christie since our beloved the man in the brown suit.
0:35.6	Catherine, could you tell us a little bit about the publication history of They
0:38.4	Came to Baghdad?
0:39.6	Yes, it was published on March 5, 1951 by Collins Crime in the UK, published in the US later the same year,
0:47.0	but it was actually first published in a bridged form in an 8-part cereal in John Bull in the UK from January to March of
0:56.0	1951. Okay I am going to talk about our victims because we have two. The first is Henry Fakir, Carmichael, who is an
1:06.4	Englishman born in Iraq, fluent in all of the languages of the region and a well-liked
1:11.1	traveler by all, and he is killed by a
1:15.0	is killed by a knife to the heart in Baghdad and this would of course be our character
1:19.5	who is very much based on Lawrence of Arabia.
1:22.0	More on him later.
1:23.4	Then we have Sir Robert Crofton, who is speaking of extremely famous English
1:29.2	adventurers.
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