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Destination Unknown
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- Seller
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Century City, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Collins, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Spy novels have subtle differences in the hands of a woman. Among those subtleties are these: What is indispensable for the conduct of a man's life is best learned from the most polished of women. The small rules of courtesy, the actions that win us the warmth or deference of others, the words that assure us a welcome, the attitudes that must be varied to mesh with character or situation, in fact, all social strategy. It is listening to women that teaches men how to speak to men. 1st edition. Fine in a dustjacket, slightly dusty, visible only on the spine's white letters and publisher's logo, with some light pushing to the spine ends but otherwise fine. Christie revisits the spy novel in the footsteps of Ian Fleming's first 2 Bond books (Casino Royale, 1953 and Live and Let Die, 1954).
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
- Biblioctopus
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 879
- Title
- Destination Unknown
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- murder
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