Hilary Craven had finished with life...
So when she was invited to impersonate the dead wife of a vanished nuclear scientist, she decided it might make a more interesting form of suicide than sleeping pills.
But by the time she met her 'husband' in a vast secret laboratory in Morocco, her wish to live had returned...
"Agatha Christie gives us one of her
rare thrillers in place of a detective
story-just to show that she can write the
one as well as the other."
Francis lles, Sunday Times
"A first-class thriller."
Birmingham Post