DESTINATION UNKNOWN | AGATHA CHRISTIE | BOOK REVIEW

 

DESTINATION UNKNOWN

Author: Agatha Christie

Publisher: Collins Crime Club

Age Range: 14+

Summary: 

Imagine a situation where you are a detective and a bunch of leading scientists from the world are disappearing all of a sudden. There is one person who holds the key to the mystery about the disappearances and that one person, lets call her B, is dying due to injuries in the plane crash. And now a replacement is needed. Someone who can take the place of person B in order to gather information about the missing scientists.

Review:

This has to be Agatha Christie's best thriller book. I personally think it is extremely underrated and deserves just as much hype as The Murder on the Orient Express. Agatha Christie really made it feel as though I was a part of the whole crazy thrilling experience.

Olive Betterton is the wife of one of the missing scientists, Thomas Betterton. She was supposed to meet her husband at this “secret hideout” where he was living along with a lot of other scientists who were “missing” in the public’s eye. But the plane she was on crashed. The injuries were fatal and it was clear that she wouldn't live for more than a few days.

Meanwhile, Hilary Craven is about to take her own life when she is offered an altogether more thrilling way to die. Jessop, a security agent, asks her to pose as Olive Betterton, go to the place where the scientists are all staying and find out what they are up to. It was a risky mission because if anyone found out that she was not the real Olive Betterton, Hilary could die. But then again, that's what she was planning to do. So she accepts the offer and Hilary, pretending to be Olive Betterton, goes to the scientists’ hideout. But she realizes the situation is much crazier than anyone could have imagined — Thomas Betterton being a fraud and another person being on a secret mission.

“When her experiments neared completion and he realized what a big thing ZE Fission was going to be, he deliberately poisoned her”

~Avani Endait