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The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

Agatha Christie

Start date: June 1, 2020

Finish date: June 30, 2020

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Apr 22, 2020 John rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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This was Agatha Christie’s second book and the first featuring Tommy and Tuppence. They have just both met up after World War 1 and are unemployed and broke. Tuppence suggests they set up a business called the Young Adventurers Ltd.

They are overheard by Mr Whittington who offers them a job. What follows is a spy/detective story that is fast, funny and rollicks along with Tommy and Tuppence landing themselves in a series of adventures to find the mysterious Jane Finn. Tommy knocked out, Tuppence ...more

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Jul 17, 2015 Liberty K rated it it was amazing

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I BLOODY KNEW IT!

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The Secret Adversary is a mystery so different if you compare it with other Agatha's works. The story starts when childhood friends Prudence ''Tuppence'' Cowley and Tommy Beresford trying to find ways to earn money. Tuppence suggests the two of them become detectives and this is only the beggining of a book which I best describe to people who want to read it as a spy game at its finest!
Can't wait to read the seconde one! ...more

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