Destination Unknown
About this book
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.
Reader Profile
3.7/5 · 18595 readers · 230 pages · ≈ 4 h 16 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Destination Unknown?
About ≈ 4 h 16 m — 230 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Destination Unknown?
230 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Destination Unknown?
It sits on the Mystery, Fiction shelves.
Is Destination Unknown in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Destination Unknown?
Agatha Christie.