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Destination Unknown
de Christie, Agatha
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Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Collins Crime Club, 1954. First edition, first printing, Published by Collins Crime Club in London, 1954. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper is bright and highly presentable in a lush green. There is slight toning and handling marks on the rear panel and the spine is slightly sunned. It has not been price clipped and the original 10s. 6d. net price is showing. The boards are free from chips and marks and the text blocks are mostly clean. This copy is free from previous owners ink and is, overall, in near fine condition. The novel opens in Morocco, where Hilary Craven is staying after a failed marriage. She plans to commit suicide, but is instead recruited by the British secret service for a mission. She is asked to impersonate the wife of a nuclear scientist who has recently disappeared. Hilary is soon transported to meet her new "husband".
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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- Librería
- John Atkinson Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 18089
- Título
- Destination Unknown
- Autor
- Christie, Agatha
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Collins Crime Club
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1954
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
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