The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Series)

not recommended, book pages not scanned properly

This book had edges of pages cut off as well as something obstructing segments of each page. It is a poorly scanned copy and a waste of time

10 out of 12 people found this review helpful.

unreadable

scanned version is unreadable

5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

Skip it

Unreadable

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Don't bother! TYPOS!

Too many TYPOS! You can get this book without the typos from a lot of sources.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

If you like Agatha Christie, this is a gem!

This is about two young people in postwar (WW 2)London scrabbling about with empty pockets in search of jobs. Casual accqaintences before, they meet by accident and, over a cup of tea, decide to pool their talents and put an ad in newspapers as investigators, The Young
Adventurers' and they niavely fall into a crimminal gang's plot to overthrow the British government. I couldn't put it down 'til the last page and is that a surprise.

2 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Scan to digital

The scan to digital was too distracting with various and sundry characters out of place or in the wrong place.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Very bad Google scan

Ten or twenty errors per page. Almost unreadable. NO STARS!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Poorly captured

Apparently, this title was machine read - and poorly. Bits of it are completely unintelligible and the frequent errors make it annoying to read.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

one star is too much

Just the usual Google mess. Would it kill them to proofread their "free" books???? I'd get fired if I put out such junk.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Ok...

I didnt really even like the book and there were just too many TYPOS to understand it!!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

This is a bad version

I've read this book before in actual book format, and I loved it, but the scanning they did is horrible. And, there has to be at least 10 mispelled words or wacky symbols on every page. Its a pain in the butt to read past the first page with all the mistakes. If you find a better version, then i reccomend downloading that. This one is just not worth it...

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Not worth it

Gibberish and typos

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Great 2nd Book

I finally finished reading the second book of my Agatha Christie self challenge. I picked it up shortly after finishing The Mysterious Affair at Styles but wasn't able to really get into it the way I wanted to, not because of the book though, but because of outside influences. Then when I went to pick it up again, I couldn't find the blasted thing. I looked everywhere for it and not one speck of it's lovely brown cover was to be seen. So I had to go buy the book again and now here I am a few days later giving my short review of it.


Here is the synopsis from the back cover:


Two bright young characters of the Jazz Age start out looking for adventures and wind us saving England in Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary. Childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Crowley have hit hard times. It's 1920, and the Great War is blessedly over. But the peace has left staid old England in the upheaval and the young veteran and the pretty former nurse flat broke. In the free spirit of the age, the two advertise themselves as "Young Adventurers," hoping for enjoyable as well as profitable employment. Their first client, a British Army Intelligence officer, promises both when he hires them to find a missing woman, and the charming duo are soon involved in a case of international intrigue, mistaken identities, and ultimately romance.




I found the book as well as the characters, Tommy and Tuppence, to be both intelligent and at times a little spastic. Now you may think that spastic is a bad thing, normally it is, but here it is a wonderful thing. The pace and the dialogue are snappy, quick, and above all else entertaining. The dialogue is simply breathtaking to read. It's quick and punchy. The report between Tommy and Tuppence is simply amazing. This book really showed how well Agatha Christie could write quick, believable dialogue. It is still the one element that is really sticking in my mind after finishing the book last night.


It had been a long time since I had read the book so the fact that this is more of a "espionage" novel rather than a "murder mystery" was not at the top of my mind. I was a little bit dismayed at first because I do enjoy a nice murder. It wasn't long though before I didn't care anymore. The story grabbed me and never let go.


I'm really looking forward to the next Tommy & Tuppence novel but there are a "few" books between now and then. They already feel like old friends that you can't get enough of.


If you like a great read with secret organizations, master-mind criminals posing as someone else, witty dialogue and characters, torpedoed ships, beautiful girls with amnesia, and rich Americans, this book is for you.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Worth what was paid

This is a free book and I suppose one should not expect too much for free. The book was quite obviously scanned and the OCR software did not do a great job and nobody followed up to clean it up.

Odd characters (typing not story related) appear throughout. For instance this passage, "Tommj, I passed two Johniues in the street to-day talking about some one named Jane Finn. Did 70a. ever hear such a nameP*"

That type of thing is prevalent throughout and makes for a difficult read.

Review for The Secret Adversary

This ebook had so many typing errors that it was hard to read--I was disappointed.

Too bad

Great story but too hard to read with words that looked like symbols.

Sad!

Typos everywhere :( Total bummer, I love Agatha Christie

Great book, though

Great book, hard to read

Unreadable!!

The book has been badly scanned. There are letter substitutions and odd characters all over the pages. It is nearly unreadable. Stay away from this one. Bleah.

Bad bad bad google

Not worth it