Description

First Australian Edition [The Crime Club, Sydney, 1954]; 208 pages; red cloth, black titling to spine, a little rubbed at extremities, bookshop sticker [Dymock’s] inside front board, an excellent copy; in excellent dustjacket, slightly tanned, 2cm tear on front fold [tape repair verso]

Here’s another spy thriller from Agatha Christie! Hilary Craven, reeling from a failed marriage and the death of her daughter, is preparing to take her own life in a hotel room in Morocco, when a British secret agent interrupts. He offers her an alternative: will she go undercover to help the government discover why so many of their leading scientists have gone missing?