Destination unknown.
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- G/G. Soiling, water staining, edge chipping and shelf wear to price-clipped dust jacket with several short closed tears (some t/Good
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Synopsis
Hilary Craven has lost the will to live, Mrs Betterton is already dead. Then Hilary is asked to impersonate the dead woman and to trace her husband - a missing nuclear scientist - and her will to live returns. A faked air disaster, a string of radio-active pearls, a leper colony floundering in the dry heat of the Moroccan desert. Hilary is lead towards a terrifying discovery and her new found enthusiasm for life turns into ice-cold fear...Christie based this book partly on the activities of two famous physicists of the early 1950s: Bruno Ponecorvo, who defected to Russia, and Emil Fuchs, who spied for the Russians. It is another of Christie's light-hearted thriller novels featuring a daring and fearless heroine.
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- Bookseller
- Lost and Found Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11510
- Title
- Destination unknown.
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover with dustjacket
- Book Condition
- Used - G/G. Soiling, water staining, edge chipping and shelf wear to price-clipped dust jacket with several short closed tears (some t
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Published for the Crime Club by Collins
- Place of Publication
- London; Sydney
- Date Published
- 1954
- Pages
- 207
- Keywords
- Mystery & detective fiction
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