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Just finished "Destination Unknown", by Agatha Christie. This was her 56th novel, and was originally published in 1954.
Hilary Craven, a deserted wife and bereaved mother, is planning suicide in a Moroccan hotel, when she is asked by British secret agent Jessop to undertake a dangerous mission as an alternative to taking an overdose of sleeping pills. The task, which she accepts, is to impersonate a dying woman to help find the woman's husband, Thomas Betterton, a nuclear scientist who has disappeared and may have defected to the Soviet Union...
A typical Christie thriller, involving international conspiracies and missing nuclear scientists, but one of her better ones. Highly recommended.
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