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Destination Unknown
by Agatha Christie
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Crime Club by Collins, 1973. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1973. Reprint. 191 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Green laminated jacket over cloth. Large areas of loss and tearing to both endpapers from being stuck to laminated flaps of jacket. Notable tanning to pages throughout. Some gutter cracking. Ex-library with usual stamps and markings. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Dewy code to spine. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Notable tanning and soiling to DJ. Dewy code to spine.
Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1711370311LEE
- Title
- Destination Unknown
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Crime Club by Collins
- Date Published
- 1973
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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