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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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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
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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Jul 05, 2017
Heather dennis
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Sep 22, 2016
Robert Bryant
marked it as to-read

Mar 06, 2018
Aqsa
marked it as to-read

Jun 09, 2020
Sawako
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it was amazing
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Dec 29, 2020
Donna Dixon
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