Destination Unknown

Destination Unknown
Agatha Christie

A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missing scientist…When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed?One woman appears to have the key to the mystery. Unfortunately, Olive Betteron now lies in a hospital bed, dying from injuries sustained in a Moroccan plane crash.Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary Craven prepares to take her own life. But her suicide attempt is about to be interrupted by a man who will offer her an altogether more thrilling way to die…

Copyright (#ulink_2123d719-f26e-57e3-a7a2-87355129c90d)

Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)

First published in Great Britain by Collins, The Crime Club 1954

Destination Unknown™ is a trade mark of Agatha Christie Limited and Agatha Christie

and the Agatha Christie Signature are registered trade marks of Agatha Christie Limited in the UK and elsewhere. Copyright © 1954 Agatha Christie Limited. All rights reserved.

www.agathachristie.com (http://www.agathachristie.com)

Cover by designedbydavid.co.uk (http://designedbydavid.co.uk) © HarperCollins/Agatha Christie Ltd 2017

Agatha Christie asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

Source ISBN: 9780008196363

Ebook Edition © March 2017 ISBN: 9780007422296

Version: 2017-04-11

Dedication (#ulink_c4de351c-e36b-5632-85b0-579d02a8cc2c)

To ANTHONY

who likes foreign travel as much as I do

Contents

Cover (#udf855751-e491-5ffa-a056-9309d4cdb507)

Title Page (#u42a7739f-216b-569c-ad7c-1fa66f40cae2)

Copyright (#ua46faa01-48cc-5cbc-8ab0-77177d203e54)

Dedication (#u429af49a-7a98-5d49-a041-3a4b45e4fec2)

Chapter 1 (#ub85e1f9b-6189-5dde-9c03-3c81e0f39211)

Chapter 2 (#u15dc25c0-fc93-50dc-8ee7-09d1a4eb914f)

Chapter 3 (#ub09c71e4-adae-5a47-8084-2def0dfbf886)

Chapter 4 (#ue766371b-c40c-5c5f-8df2-d4c7a959c82d)

Chapter 5 (#u616393ee-dd90-5d1a-8bf6-5c3daa9a280d)

Chapter 6 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 7 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by Agatha Christie (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 1 (#ulink_a72181a1-b20a-5f55-a15b-108390c891f2)