All of Agatha: Destination Unknown
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stonepicnicking_okapiThis series of entries is commentary on my lifelong quest to read all of Agatha Christie's works in UK publication order.
Destination Unknown is a forgettable novel from 1954. Here is the synopsis:
Hilary Craven, a deserted wife and bereaved mother, is planning suicide in a Moroccan hotel, when she is asked by British secret agent Jessop to undertake a dangerous mission as an alternative to taking an overdose of sleeping pills. The task, which she accepts, is to impersonate a dying woman to help find the woman's husband, Thomas Betterton, a nuclear scientist who has disappeared and may have defected to the Soviet Union. Soon she finds herself in a group of travellers being transported to the unknown destination of the title.
I think it's a nice fantasy. A person planning to commit suicide finds themselves enveloped in a strange plot that ends up giving them a reason to live. But there's so many identity changes that you could be forgiven for forgetting who is who.
Next Up: A Poirot and a return to the nursery rhyme theme with Hickory, Dickory, Dock.
Destination Unknown is a forgettable novel from 1954. Here is the synopsis:
Hilary Craven, a deserted wife and bereaved mother, is planning suicide in a Moroccan hotel, when she is asked by British secret agent Jessop to undertake a dangerous mission as an alternative to taking an overdose of sleeping pills. The task, which she accepts, is to impersonate a dying woman to help find the woman's husband, Thomas Betterton, a nuclear scientist who has disappeared and may have defected to the Soviet Union. Soon she finds herself in a group of travellers being transported to the unknown destination of the title.
I think it's a nice fantasy. A person planning to commit suicide finds themselves enveloped in a strange plot that ends up giving them a reason to live. But there's so many identity changes that you could be forgiven for forgetting who is who.
Next Up: A Poirot and a return to the nursery rhyme theme with Hickory, Dickory, Dock.