Agatha Christie was already well known as a crime writer when she accompanied her husband Max Mallowan to Syria ans Iraq in the 1930s. She took enormous interest in all his excavations and when friends asked what her strange life was like she decided to answer their questions in this delightful book.

First published in 1946 Come Tell Me How You Live gives a charming picture Agatha Christie herself while also giving insight into some of her most popular novels including Murder in Mesopotamia and Appointment with Death. It is as Jacquetta Hawkes concludes in her introduction ' a pure pleasure to read'.