In the ruins of an Iraqi city, memories of Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie lived here once, but only memories remain of the time the best-selling crime writer spent among the ruins of the ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud. The mud-brick house where the British author of "Murder on the Orient Express" once stayed is long gone. If she were alive today, she would probably be shocked […]Isabel Coles writes for Reuters:
Agatha Christie lived here once, but only memories remain of the time the best-selling crime writer spent among the ruins of the ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud.
The mud-brick house where the British author of "Murder on the Orient Express" once stayed is long gone. If she were alive today, she would probably be shocked by what has befallen the Assyrian city where she worked alongside her archaeologist husband five decades ago.
