Destination Unknown
First published 1954
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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...
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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.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1954
- Edition
- Met onbekende bestemming
- Publisher
- Luitingh-Sijthoff
- Language
- DUT
- ISBN-13
- 9789024513420