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

Agatha Christie

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Jun 08, 2021 Stacy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was my first Tommy & Tuppence mystery and I did enjoy the departure from the more well known Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries (though I enjoy those too). This book was the reader's introduction to Tommy and Tuppence as amateur sleuths and they really bite off more than they bargained for, getting caught up in a deadly plot planned by Communists to overthrow the U.K. government. It begins at the sinking of the Lusitania and continues for years after the event.
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Jun 22, 2013 Mark Rabideau rated it liked it

I have to say that I found the tale boring. If this novel were by an author other than Agatha Christie, I would have rated it lower than 3 stars.

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Jul 25, 2020 Jess Penhallow rated it liked it

Shelves: libby, uk, 1920s

This early book of Christie's was a really fun romp. I was surprised as it was really more Espionage than Mystery, although there was a mystery involved.

This was new for me as I usually think of espionage books as being set in either WWII or the Cold War so reading one set post-WWI was a nice change. However, this setting also made the plot hard to follow as I'm not very familiar with either the politics at that time or the sinking of the Lusitania. Being written at the time, Christie doesn't r ...more

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