The Secret Adversary

Hardcover, 372 pages

English language

Published Jan. 30, 2006 by 1st World Library.

ISBN:
978-1-4218-1003-4
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3 stars (3 reviews)

Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great War, there are few jobs available and the couple are desperately short of money. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd.—"willing to do anything, go anywhere." Hiring themselves out proves to be a smart move for the couple. In their first assignment for the mysterious Mr. Whittingtont, all Tuppence has to do in their first job is take an all-expense paid trip to Paris and pose as an American named Jane Finn. But with the assignment comes a bribe to keep quiet, a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her new employer. Now their newest job are playing detective.

Where is the real Jane Finn? The mere mention of her name produces a very strange reaction all over London. So strange, in fact, that …

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I had not read this Christie before, turns out I didn’t miss much

3 stars

Entertaining, but appalling stereotyping even by 1920s standards. All the minor villains are almost comically unoriginal, a bunch of foreign communists with low brows, small eyes and harsh accents. The main characters are more sympathetic, but only slightly more interesting, especially in the first half of the book. But points added back on for the locked room mystery, I really liked that.

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