So Many Steps to Death Author:Agatha Christie When Tom Betterton, a brilliant nuclear physicist, vanished, Scotland Yard, the F.B.I. and the Secret Services of other countries still could not discover the pattern. — Olive Betterton had seemed to hold a clue. But she died ina plane crash in Casablanca. — Hillary Craven, a beautiful woman deeply involved in her own tragic life, was asked to im... more »personate the dead woman. As Mrs. Thomas Betterton she would lead government agents to her missing "husband". Th wild one-in-a-hundred chance masquerade led her deeper and deeper into the African desert and closer and closer to the center of the plot - and to death.« less