CHRISTIE, Agatha.
Destination Unknown.
London: The Crime Club by Collins , 1954.
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First edition of Agatha Christie's Destination Unknown; inscribed by her to close personal friend Dorothy North
First edition of Christie's classic spy novel set in Morocco and the Atlas Mountains of Maghreb. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Dorothy from Agatha Oct. 1954." The recipient, Dorothy North, was a close friend and integral member of Christie’s London social circle in the 1930s. She was the dedicatee of Christie’s 1940 novel One Two, Buckle My Shoe. North’s daughter, Susan, and Christie’s daughter, Rosalind, were also close friends and the joint dedicatees of Christie’s 1939 novel Murder is Easy. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
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 the wife of Thomas Betterton, a nuclear scientist who has disappeared and may have defected to the Soviet Union. Soon she finds herself in a group of oddly-assorted travelers being transported to the unknown destination of the title which turns out to be a secret scientific research facility disguised as a modern leper colony and medical research center at a remote location in the Atlas Mountains. Destination Unknown is one of the five Christie novels to have not received an adaptation of any kind, the others being Death Comes as the End, Passenger to Frankfurt, They Came to Baghdad, and Postern of Fate.
Destination Unknown.
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