Agatha Christie?

Detainees under Harry Potter's spell By Rowan Scarborough

Harry Potter's worldwide popularity is so broad-based that it has become favorite reading for Islamic terror suspects at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.

Lori, who for two years has overseen the detention center's library, said J.K. Rowling's tales about the boy wizard are on top of the request list for the camp's 520 al Qaeda and Taliban suspects, followed by Agatha Christie whodunits.

Which is not to say they don't read another book.

The Guantanamo library also has drawn interest because of a separate investigation into how guards handle the Koran, which is given to any prisoner who requests it under Pentagon policy. The investigation found five cases of mishandling the sacred book, but no evidence that personnel flushed a copy down a toilet, as one press report -- since disavowed -- said.

The prison initially ordered 1,600 Korans in various languages for $23,000 and since has put in orders for more than 200 more.

"After a period of time, they start to fall apart because they read them constantly," Lori said.

I'm not surprised they're interested in a best-seller. But Agatha Christie? She's been dead a few years, and not the sort of thing I'd expect a bunch of young rowdies to read. I guess it's a post-colonialist thing.