DESTINATION UNKNOWN
by CHRISTIE, Agatha
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
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Sherman Oaks, California, United States
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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
- SCENE OF THE CRIME ® (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002793
- Title
- DESTINATION UNKNOWN
- Author
- CHRISTIE, Agatha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Dodd Mead
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1978
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- SCENE OF THE CRIME
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUTHOR A~B~C; DAME AGATHA;
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