Destination Unknown (1954)

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My review:

A rather unusual Christie, difficult to pin down and say anything substantial about.  On the surface, it is a rather standard thriller: Hilary Cravenly attempts suicide, but rediscovers life through nearly losing it in an attempt to discover the whereabouts of vanishing scientists, the answer to which problem she finds in a leper colony in Morocco.  Although the reader is kept interested, he is never excited, for the menace doesn’t really exist, the setting is rather unreal and hard to visualise, and some of the plot details (notably the Betterton sub-plot) perfunctorily handled.  The real interest lies in Christie’s growing concern with the dangers of idealism, a theme she developed in They Came to Baghdad, and which would colour her late works, of which this is very definitely the first.

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