"Destination Unknown" ( Eng. "Destination Unknown" ) is a detective novel by Agatha Christie . It was first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club on November 1, 1954 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1955 under the title “ So Many Steps to Death ”.
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| Genre | detective |
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| Original language | English |
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| Publishing house | Collins crime club |
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Story
Hilary Craven, the abandoned wife and mother of the deceased child, is planning suicide at a hotel in Morocco . But instead of poisoning with a large dose of sleeping pills, she was offered to carry out a dangerous mission: it was necessary to help find the missing nuclear scientist, who might have escaped behind the Iron Curtain . Soon she finds herself in a group of tourists who are being driven in an unknown direction.
Characters
- Mr. Jessop, British Secret Agent
- Thomas Betterton, a disappeared young scientist
- Olivier Betterton, his wife
- Boris Glider, brother of Elsa, the first wife of Thomas Betterton
- Hilary Craven, the main character
- Mrs. Calvente Becker, American tourist
- Janet Hatheringston, an English tourist
- Mr. Aristides, one of the richest people in the world
- Andrew Peters, a young research chemist
- Torquil Erickson, Norwegian idealist
- Dr. Lewis Barron, French bacteriologist
- Helga Nitham, German scientist
- Paul Van Heidi, General
Links
- Destination unknown on Agatha Christie's official website .