Destination Unknown
de Christie, Agatha
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fair in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 085456473X
- ISBN 13
- 9780854564736
- Librería
-
Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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Sobre este artículo
Leicester: F A Thorpe (Publishing) Ltd.. Fair in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library . 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. .
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 28779
- Título
- Destination Unknown
- Autor
- Christie, Agatha
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fair in Very Good dust jacket
- Edición
- Reprint; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 085456473X
- ISBN 13
- 9780854564736
- Editorial
- F A Thorpe (Publishing) Ltd.
- Lugar de publicación
- Leicester
- Fecha de publicación
- 1989
- Palabras clave
- Ex-Library
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Large Print;
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- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
