"Lefarge" turns out to actually be "Defarge" and is a reference to a Charles Dickens character; it is an allusion to the fact that the name of a vital witness has been stitched into a scarf.
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The book was inspired by Christie's own trips to Baghdad with her second husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, and is also one of few Christie novels belonging to the action and spy fiction genres, rather than to mysteries and whodunnits.
Baghdad | University of Baghdad | Baghdad Railway | Baghdad International Airport | New Baghdad | Round city of Baghdad | Rixos Al Rasheed Baghdad Hotel | Whoops Baghdad | Radio Baghdad | Multi-National Division - Baghdad | Heavy Metal in Baghdad | Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | Baghdad Zoo | Baghdad Soft Drinks Co | Baghdād | Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad | 29 March 2007 Baghdad bombings | 2010 Baghdad church attack |