So Many Steps to Death

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So Many Steps to Death by Agatha Christie. Original British Title: Destination Unknown. Characters include Thomas (Tom) Betterton Hilary Craven and Leblanc. From inside the front cover: Scientists were disappearing at an alarming rate...Then Tom Betterton a brilliant nuclear physicist vanished. But Scotland Yard the F.B.I. and the Secret Services of other countries still could not discover the pattern. Bettertons wife possibly knew more than she was telling but except for a last strange warning she couldnt tell any more...shed died after a plane crash in Casablanca. So another woman agreed to impersonate the dead woman. As Mrs. Thomas Betterton she could lead government agents to her missing "husband." The improbable masquerade led her deeper and deeper into the African wastelands and closer and closer to the center of the plot-and to death! From the back cover: Lovely red headed Hilary Craven wanted to die. The sleeping pills were ready on her bedside table when a knock so