The Middle Eastern journeys that inspired Agatha Christie's greatest mysteries | The National

Agatha Christie brings to mind English villages, country houses, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and suspects hiding in plain sight. But that’s only half the picture. Some of her finest novels were born hundreds of miles from England, amid desert excavations, Nile riverboats and rose-red stone cities.

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