To us in the twenty-first century, Iraq may seem a strange choice for leisure travel. Simplon-Orient Express-Milan Belgrade, Stamboul…I was bitten. When I had travelled to France or Spain or Italy, the Orient Express had often been standing at Calais, and I had longed to climb up into it. She says in her autobiography:Īll my life I had wanted to go on the Orient Express. And not just any train: you could travel on the fabled Orient Express! As it happened, Agatha Christie loved trains, and it had long been her desire to travel on that particular storied line. Christie assumed that to get there, you had to go by sea., but her interlocutors assured her that she could make the journey by train. They raved about the exotic, fascinating city. But two days before her intended departure date, she happened to have dinner with a young couple just returned from Baghdad. The destination: Baghdad.Ĭhristie had originally planned a Caribbean vacation. Why should she not embark on an adventure? She is in need of a change of scene…. Her marriage, to her grief and mortification, has ended. She is alone her daughter is safely ensconced in a boarding school. Jat 9:06 pm ( Book clubs, books, Mystery fiction) The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie: a book discussion.
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