In Agatha Christie's They Came to Baghdad, Victoria Jones is an indifferent shorthand typist who has just gotten fired. Then she meets a young man in a park. During the course of their conversation, Victoria discovers his name is Edward and he's about to go to Baghdad to take up a secretarial job. Determined to follow him, she uses her talent for telling lies to finagle her way to the far-off city, blissfully unaware of the trouble that awaits her there.
Pros: There are Christian themes at the end of the book that I liked very much. I love Christie's spy stories! (Although I must admit I didn't like Passenger to Frankfurt at all.)
Cons: I don't really like Victoria; she lies too much. I also don't think that the Cold War happened simply because Americans and Soviets didn't understand each other - Americans knew only too well how evil the Soviet Union really was.
My Rating: T (murder, conspiracy)
Oh! You finally read TCTB! There were quite a few Christian themes, weren't there? I was pleasantly surprised.
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Thanks! The roses remind me of Jane Austen for some reason...
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for recommending TCTB - I really enjoyed it. Most of AC's "moral" things are, *cough*, not exactly moral. But TCTB was very Christian in the end. Hard to believe the same person wrote "Passenger to Frankfurt."