The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Series), Tommy and Tuppence Series, Agatha Christie, Book

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Asked by a British Intelligence official to find a woman named Jane Finn, who disappeared with sensitive government documents, Tommy and Tuppence soon find themselves drawn into a complicated web of intrigue, intelligence agents, dubious identities, missing government papers, false clues--and all-too-real danger. Unabridged. 7 CDs.

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Agatha Christie is nearly synonymous with upper-class British mysteries, for good reason. She set the standard for the genre in over 60 novels and dozens of short stories, also creating two classic detectives: the fastidious Belgian, Hercule Poirot, and English spinster Jane Marple. No one could match Christie's knack for weaving clues into her stories, then turning the whole thing inside out -- shocking her readers every time.

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NO SECRET HERE - A FINE VOICE PERFORMANCE
Gail Cooke (grospoin@aol.com) , A reviewer, 08/17/2004

Popular performer Samantha Bond uses her wonderful British voice to best advantage in reading this -not-too-heavy tale by the doyenne of mysteries, Agatha Christie. Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley suffer from a common malady - they need money. So, being an imaginative pair they decide to hire themselves out as adventurers, if you will, able and ready to tackle anything for a sum. Better be careful what you ask for - they're retained by the evil Mr. Whittington who is a threat not only to Great Britain but also to our impecunious pair. As they say, two heads are better than one but Tommy and Tuppence must use all the brainpower each possesses to get out of this scrape. The dialogue features frequent feasts of repartee - a thoroughly entertaining listen. - Gail Cooke

Pretty Good!
Nick, a great detective!, 02/05/2001

I thought that this book was pretty good. It presented a unique problem. I predicted who the criminal was, but I am very good at mysteries and I don't think that it was very obvious (the answer, I mean). You should definitely read this book. I couldn't put it down!

Also recommended: Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The A.B.C. Murders, The Moving Finger

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Name:
Agatha Christie

Also Known As:
Mary Westmacott (used for her romantic fiction)

Date of Birth:
September 15, 1890

Place of Birth:
Torquay, Devon, England

Date of Death
January 12, 1976

Education:
Home schooling

* Agatha Christie's official web site

Biography

Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language, and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 79 novels and a short story collection, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest running play in history. Two of the characters she created, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world famous detectives. Both have been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies. Agatha Christie died in 1976.

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The return of a classic mystery from the queen of crime.

Hiring themselves out as "young adventurers willing to do anything" is a smart move for Tommy and Tuppence. All Tuppence has to do is take an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris and pose as someone named Jane Finn. But with the job comes a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her mysterious employer. Now Tuppence's newest job is playing detective—because if there's a Jane Finn that really exists, she's got a secret that's putting both their lives in danger.

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NO SECRET HERE - A FINE VOICE PERFORMANCE
Gail Cooke (grospoin@aol.com), A reviewer, 08/17/2004

Popular performer Samantha Bond uses her wonderful British voice to best advantage in reading this -not-too-heavy tale by the doyenne of mysteries, Agatha Christie. Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley suffer from a common malady - they need money. So, being an imaginative pair they decide to hire themselves out as adventurers, if you will, able and ready to tackle anything for a sum. Better be careful what you ask for - they're retained by the evil Mr. Whittington who is a threat not only to Great Britain but also to our impecunious pair. As they say, two heads are better than one but Tommy and Tuppence must use all the brainpower each possesses to get out of this scrape. The dialogue features frequent feasts of repartee - a thoroughly entertaining listen. - Gail Cooke

Pretty Good!
Nick, a great detective!, 02/05/2001

I thought that this book was pretty good. It presented a unique problem. I predicted who the criminal was, but I am very good at mysteries and I don't think that it was very obvious (the answer, I mean). You should definitely read this book. I couldn't put it down!

Also recommended:�Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The A.B.C. Murders, The Moving Finger

Product Details

ISBN: 0451201205
ISBN-13: 9780451201201
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 256pp
Publisher: Signet
Pub. Date: January 2001
Edition Description: REISSUE
Sales Rank: 45,322
Series: Tommy and Tuppence Series

Table of Contents

	Cast of Characters	vii
Part 1	The Facts
1	An Important Passenger on the Taurus Express	3
2	The Tokatlian Hotel	13
3	Poirot Refuses a Case	21
4	A Cry in the Night	29
5	The Crime	33
6	A Woman	45
7	The Body	53
8	The Armstrong Kidnapping Case	63
Part 2	The Evidence
1	The Evidence of the Wagon Lit Conductor	69
2	The Evidence of the Secretary	76
3	The Evidence of the Valet	81
4	The Evidence of the American Lady	87
5	The Evidence of the Swedish Lady	95
6	The Evidence of the Russian Princess	101
7	The Evidence of Count and Countess Andrenyi	108
8	The Evidence of Colonel Arbuthnot	114
9	The Evidence of Mr. Hardman	123
10	The Evidence of the Italian	130
11	The Evidence of Miss Debenham	134
12	The Evidence of the German Lady's-maid	140
13	Summary of the Passengers' Evidence	147
14	The Evidence of the Weapon	155
15	The Evidence of the Passengers' Luggage	163
Part 3	Hercule Poirot Sits Back and Thinks
1	Which of Them?	181
2	Ten Questions	189
3	Certain Suggestive Points	195
4	The Grease Spot on a Hungarian Passport	204
5	The Christian Name of Princess Dragomiroff	211
6	A Second Interview with Colonel Arbuthnot	216
7	The Identity of Mary Debenham	220
8	Further Surprising Revelations	224
9	Poirot Propounds Two Solutions	231

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