CHRISTIE, Agatha Destination Unknown. London: Collins Crime Club.1954.
8vo. Original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine, "The Holliday Bookshop" label stamped to rear pastedown; green dust jacket with black and white title to front board and spine; pp. [vi], 191, [1]; discolouration of pages to upperedge and foxing to rear pastedown; minor browning to rear panel, otherwise very good.
First edition
Destinaiton Unknown is one of the celebrated Agatha Christie novels based far from a quintissential English backdrop, with a setting in Morocco and features a prominent heroine.
When Hilary Craven plans her suicide, she is saved by the British secret service who recruit her to impersonate the role as wife of a nuclear scientist who has mysteriously vanished…
Although the book subtly examines the 1950s defection of famous physicists to the Soviets, the narrative also reflects the dismantling of Christie's own first marriage in 1928.
Following pressure from her first husband for divorce after falling in love with a younger woman, Agatha Christie became the protagonist of her own mystery, staging an eleven day disappearance. After a significant manhunt, she was discovered in a hotel registered under the name of her husband's lover.
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