Synopsis
When a number of leading scientists disappear without a trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. And the one woman who appears to hold the key to the mystery is dying from injuries sustained in a plane crash.Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary Craven prepares to take her own life. But her suicide attempt is about to be interrupted by a man who will offer her an altogether more thrilling way to die. . . .
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When a number of leading scientists disappear without a trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. And the one woman who appears to hold the key to the mystery is dying from injuries sustained in a plane crash.
Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary Craven prepares to take her own life. But her suicide attempt is about to be interrupted by a man who will offer her an altogether more thrilling way to die. . . .
About the Author
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
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Destination Unknown
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F A Thorpe (Publishing) Ltd., Leicester, 1989
ISBN 10: 085456473X
ISBN 13: 9780854564736
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Seller: Darkwood Online T/A BooksinBulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Ex library copy with usual stamps and marks inside, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, missing front endpaper, some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Maroon cloth boards with gilt ettering to spine. DJ protected by clear library sleeve. Good reading copy, no names inside. Large heavy book and priced accordingly. ; Ulverscroft Large Print Series; 208 pages; An Englishwoman, Hilary Craven, planning suicide in a Moroccan hotel is asked by British secret agent to undertake a dangerous mission as an alternative to taking an overdose of sleeping pills. The task, which she accepts, is to impersonate the wife of a nuclear scientist who has disappeared and may have defected to the Soviet Union. The wife is under surveilance and has also been tracked to Morocco. Before long Hilary finds herself in a odd group of travellers being transported to a destination unknown. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 28779
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