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Destination Unknown
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BrokenTune
Nov 26, 2016 rated it it was ok
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Hilary Craven has lost everything that is dear to her and cannot contemplate life any longer. As she sets out to act on her despair, she is approached with a proposition...

I said it before and I say it again: Dame Agatha did not write good spy thrillers. This another proof of it. Although, Destination Unknown was not as outrageously bad as Passenger to Frankfurt - I mean really, not many books are as bad as that - this one was quite boring.

Maybe it was because the story was too slow paced, or ma
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Wanda Pedersen
One of Dame Agatha's spy novels, reflecting the 1950s fears of defections to Russia among the scientific elite. It is very cloak and dagger, with numerous plots, a wealthy backer, a hidden lair in Northern Africa, lavish laboratories and a gilded prison for the defectors. Everything the budding evil genius requires.

Hillary Craven has gone to Casablanca to either find peace or rest in peace. Her ex-husband has remarried and her daughter is dead. Deciding that she has no reason to go on, she buys
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Jen
Mar 15, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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Roseli Gomes
Aug 01, 2022 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: desafio-2022
Gosto muito desse tema que a AC tratou nesse livro: um tico de conspiração, crítica ao comunismo e - uma dose sagaz de 1984 - sim, senti um "dedinho" de inspiração no momento do "discurso" feito no livro. Um discurso comum, com algumas frases de efeito e comoção da plateia.

E, como sempre, gosto de prestigiar uma resenha e outros fãs de AC:


RESENHA: UM DESTINO IGNORADO, AGATHA CHRISTIE
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Durante uma conferência em Paris, o cientista nuclear Thomas Betterton desaparece misteriosamente
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Debbie Maskus
Sep 02, 2023 rated it liked it
Agatha Christie ventures out of her usual Poirot or Marple mystery to reveal kidnapped scientists working in an unknown destination. The story reads like a spy novel with clandestine meetings and locations. Hilary Craven has lost her daughter and her husband and now contemplates suicide. But a British secret agent stops Hilary and urges her to join his group. Hilary Craven becomes Olive Betterton, the wife of one of the missing scientists. The scientists have converged at a location possibly in ...more
Ilirwen
May 30, 2008 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Tim
Dec 10, 2010 marked it as to-read
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Alice
May 28, 2013 rated it it was ok
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Jun 12, 2014 rated it liked it
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Michelle
Mar 10, 2017 marked it as to-read
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Sep 22, 2017 marked it as want-to-buy
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Stephanie
Aug 18, 2020 marked it as to-read
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Karen
Jul 31, 2021 rated it it was amazing
Mckinley
Dec 28, 2020 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Nov 28, 2023 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
John
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Deb Saw
Dec 17, 2023 rated it liked it
Kelly
Jan 29, 2024 marked it as interested-in
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