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The Secret Adversary
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Joey Preston
Jan 04, 2024 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
A Secret Adversary was my first Tommy and Tuppence novel. I have read a couple of their short stories before but never read their first appearance (technically I listened to it). Agatha is a master storyteller and she doesn’t disappoint. I enjoyed the way she introduces the reader to her two main characters and how they play off of one another and also try to think like each other when one of them isn’t there to help the other out. It was a classic spy novel that also felt like a cozy crime. As ...more
 Valessa
3.5/5 ⭐
"Nunca digas todo lo que sabes, ni siquiera a la persona que mejor conoces".

Un libro con una temática muy diferente a la que usualmente Agatha Christie nos tiene acostumbrados, pero que no deja de encantar a sus lectores con las aventuras de sus personajes y su ingenio.

Este libro forma parte de su serie de Tommy y Tuppence, en esta ocasión ellos se embarcan en la búsqueda de unos comprometedores documentos secretos que fueron suscritos durante la Primera Guerra mundial y los cuales s
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The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie

‘Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No unreasonable offer refused.’

This is the first novel where we meet Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley, young, broke and in want of excitement, adventure and money. They set up as ‘The Young Adventurers Ltd’ and on the trail of the mysterious Jane Finn, whose name generates a very strange reaction. They end up chest deep in intrigue, murder and danger on the trail of th
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