"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Destination Unknown.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014. [Spy novel] FACSIMILE EDITION, first thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.205 [3]. Publisher's red paper over boards, with black titles to spine and upper. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. A large brown stain to rear jacket flap, otherwise a crisp, near fine copy. Secret Service thriller from the Queen of Crime; When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the intelligence agency. When the only possible lead dies in a plane crash, a British spy must persuade a potential suicide that if she must die, it may as well be in the service of her country. Published as 'So Many Steps to Death' in the USA. Published 1st November 1954. This it the first edition in book form; an abridged serialisation appeared in John Bull Magazine, September - October 1954. Item #71592
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