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DESTINATION UNKNOWN
by CHRISTIE, Agatha
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Sherman Oaks, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Dodd Mead, 1978. FINE condition in VERY GOOD dust jacket. NY. Dodd Mead. HARDCOVER. 1978. Number 23 in THE GREENWAY EDITION Reprint Series. AS NEW, bound in gray cloth with black titles in blue uniform dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Dust jacket has light rubbing to covers, thin band of toning to edges and nicks, chips at spine head. Originally published in the United States as So Many Steps To Death.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.
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 ®
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- 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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- Fine
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
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