Destination Unknown: Book Guide, Author and Facts
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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...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.
Quick facts about Destination Unknown
- Title: Destination Unknown
- Author: Agatha Christie
- First published: 1954
- Genre: english detective and mystery stories, mystery, detective and mystery stories
- OpenLibrary ID: OL471738W
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Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie is widely available in print, ebook and audiobook editions from major retailers and libraries.
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What is Destination Unknown about?
Hilary Craven has lost the will to live, Mrs Betterton is already dead.
Who wrote Destination Unknown?
Destination Unknown was written by Agatha Christie.
When was Destination Unknown published?
Destination Unknown was first published in 1954.
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