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N or M? (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #3)

Agatha Christie

Start date: March 15, 2025

Finish date: April 7, 2025

Discussion: Buddy reads

Why we're reading this: Another in the Tommy & Tuppence series
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Aug 07, 2015 Louise Culmer rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites, owned

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford think they are past it. it's 1940, both their children are engaged in exciting war work, but nobody wants the services of the older Beresfords. Then Tommy is offered a job going undercover at a seaside guesthouse where there are suspected fifth columnists. And of course Tuppence is determined not to be left out. Working out who among their fellow guests may be the traitors isn't easy.
An entertaining wartime suspense story, with Tommy and Tuppence as ebullient as the ...more

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Apr 24, 2018 Teri-K rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-golden-age

I really enjoyed this book which gives us Tommy and Tuppence in their 40's during WWII. Of course they want to help their country but it seems people of their age aren't needed. How they get involved with 5th columnist (spies working inside England) makes a quick, fun tale. It's unlikely the reader will figure out all of the twists and turns in this story, bu even when I remembered who did what and why I still thought the story held up well. Their kids are unnecessarily dismissive of our pair, b ...more

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Mar 04, 2009 Laura Anne rated it really liked it

Shelves: british-isles, mystery, world-war-ii, espionage

Reread 2021: Another spy-thriller meets whodunit for Tommy and Tuppence, I like this one just a tiny bit less than the earlier entries in the series.

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Aug 19, 2024 Katie rated it really liked it

Shelves: classic-mystery, fiction

Very enjoyable! Loved it. The solution felt a little muddled to me, but I’m not going to complain as I can never follow things that happen in espionage stories. I can’t blame Agatha Christie for that.

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