The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Series)

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Overview

The first Tommy and Tuppence mystery, including an all-new introduction by Agatha Christie expert John Curran

Tommy and Tuppence, two people flat broke and out of work, are restless for excitement. They embark on a daring business scheme—Young Adventurers Ltd.—"willing to do anything, go anywhere." But their first assignment, for the sinister Mr. Whittington, draws them into a diabolical, political conspiracy. Under the eye of the elusive, ruthless Mr. Brown, they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever imagined.

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Overview

The first Tommy and Tuppence mystery, including an all-new introduction by Agatha Christie expert John Curran

Tommy and Tuppence, two people flat broke and out of work, are restless for excitement. They embark on a daring business scheme—Young Adventurers Ltd.—"willing to do anything, go anywhere." But their first assignment, for the sinister Mr. Whittington, draws them into a diabolical, political conspiracy. Under the eye of the elusive, ruthless Mr. Brown, they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever imagined.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780451201201
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 1/28/2001
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Pages: 256
  • Series: Tommy and Tuppence Series
  • Product dimensions: 4.26 (w) x 6.78 (h) x 0.76 (d)

Meet the Author

Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
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.

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.

Author biography courtesy of Random House, Inc.

    1. Also Known As:
      Mary Westmacott (used for her romantic fiction)
    1. Date of Birth:
      September 15, 1890
    2. Place of Birth:
      Torquay, Devon, England
    1. Date of Death:
      January 12, 1976

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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  • Posted January 10, 2011

    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 11 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 27, 2011

    unreadable

    scanned version is unreadable

    5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted June 2, 2011

    Skip it

    Unreadable

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 27, 2011

    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.

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  • Posted March 20, 2011

    more from this reviewer

    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.

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  • Posted October 24, 2011

    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.

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  • Posted October 23, 2011

    Very bad Google scan

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

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 30, 2011

    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.

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  • Posted September 13, 2011

    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.

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  • Posted September 4, 2011

    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.

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  • Posted August 31, 2011

    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.

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  • Posted July 2, 2011

    Not worth it

    Gibberish and typos

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted August 21, 2009

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    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 5, 2012

    Review for The Secret Adversary

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

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 4, 2012

    Too bad

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

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 29, 2012

    Sad!

    Typos everywhere :( Total bummer, I love Agatha Christie

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 28, 2012

    Great book, though

    Great book, hard to read

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 22, 2012

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 13, 2012

    Bad bad bad google

    Not worth it

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 11, 2012

    Did not OCR well

    This book is hard to read because no one proofed the OCR.

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