Thema Agatha Christie

Die Biographie über Agatha Christie, hat mir sehr gut gefallen. Ich habe darin viel Neues über die Autorin erfahren, und auch über ihre Reisen - vor allem in den mittleren Osten. Deshalb habe ich heute Morgen in der U-Bahn ein thematisch ganz ähnliches Buch begonnen, es verspricht auch sehr interessant zu werden.

Andrew EAMES
The 8:55 to Baghdad

Review: A chance encounter in Aleppo reveals to Andrew Eames that there was much more to the world's favourite crime writer Agatha Christie than white-haired old ladies, cups of tea and slightly dodgy upper-class families with a propensity to murder. He thus sets forth to discover why a 38-year-old single mother would have travelled from the safe suburbia of Sunningdale to the middle of the Iraqi desert in 1928. Eames' whydunnit is made all the more poignant as his is a race against war; he arrives in Iraq at the same time as the UN weapons inspectors. Eames is a canny and highly funny observer. He is permanently scratching away at the surface to find out what lies beneath as he attempts to unearth Christie's secrets and the reality of life in today's troubled Middle East (as well as the mysteries of train timetables in the era of the plane!). It would be difficult to recommend this book too highly. (Kirkus UK)