The secret adversary

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242 pages

English language

Published Aug. 5, 2001 by Signet/New American Library.

ISBN:
978-0-451-20120-1
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3 stars (1 review)

Hiring themselves out as "young adventurers" proves to be a smart move for Tommy and Tuppence. 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 Tuppence's newest job is playing detective.

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reviewed The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

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.

Subjects

  • Murder -- Fiction.
  • Beresford, Tommy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
  • Beresford, Tuppence (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
  • England -- Fiction.