{"product_id":"9781590209165","title":"The 8:55 to Baghdad: From London to Iraq on the Trail of Agatha Christie","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1928, Agatha Christie, the world's most widely read author, was a thirty-something single mother.\u003c\/p\u003e With her marriage to her first husband, Archie Christie, over, she decided to take a much needed holiday; the Caribbean had been her intended destination, but a conversation at a dinner party with a couple who had just returned from Iraq changed her mind. Five days later she was off on a completely different trajectory.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Merging literary biography with travel adventure, and ancient history with contemporary world events, Andrew Eames tells a riveting tale and reveals fascinating and little-knowndetails en route in this exotic chapter in the life of Agatha Christie. His own trip from London to Baghdad--a journey much more difficult to make in 2002 with the political unrest in the Middle East and the war in Iraq, than it was in 1928--becomes ineluctably intertwined with Agatha's, and the people he meets could have stepped out of a mystery novel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Fans of Agatha Christie will delight in Eames' description of the places and events that appeared in andinfluenced her fiction--and armchair travelers will thrill in the exotica of the journey itself.","brand":"ABRAMS, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169819836656,"sku":"9781590209165","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590209165_p0.jpg?v=1769901258","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590209165","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}