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lol. Idk why Brown is having to move against his own organization like this, probably to stage things so that Jane feels like she has finally been rescued and feels safe enough to drop the amnesia facade. Which may have been the game all along.

Mr. Brown is almost certainly either Julius or Sir James given that Mrs. Vandemeyer passed out on seeing the two of them. Both have pretty good covers. We actually don’t know anything about Julius and his episode at the ward was told by him. Sir James has a great cover, given that he has put a host of criminals in jail… which if he’s running the show, means he’d have insider information.

It started out as kind of a ridiculous book but now that the characters are actually in peril it’s gotten pretty decent. I’m not sure about the Julius Hersheimer character—is he really Finn’s cousin? Is he really interested in her well-being?—but the main plot sort of echoes the fourth man in the Big Four, an overlord who works in plain sight under an assumed identity while handing out edicts as Mr. Brown.

A goofy buddy thriller where Tuppence, the domineering and adventurous young woman, accidentally blackmails a criminal organization… Socialists!!! The plot is very anti-labour. This has more of a feeling of comedy where the English couple is off to a grand old adventure, like The Man in the Brown Coat but with less erotic choking and more “well we have gotten ourselves into quite a scrape, haven’t we, love?”