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Greetings from Baghdad, where Agatha Christie's old home presents its own mystery

Published by NPR World By Jane Arraf · 29 October 2026 at 17:52
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Greetings from Baghdad, where Agatha Christie's old home presents its own mystery
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The English writer visited Iraq multiple times in the first half of the 20th century and set some of her mystery novels there. The house in Baghdad where she once lived now sits abandoned and crumbling.

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