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The Secret Adversary

  • Agatha Christie

3.78

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Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great War, there are few jobs available and the couple are desperately short of money. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd.—"willing to do anything, go anywhere." Hiring themselves out proves to be a smart move for the couple. In their first assignment for the mysterious Mr. Whittingtont, all Tuppence has to do in their first job is take an all-expense paid trip to Paris and pose as an American named Jane Finn. But with the assignment comes a bribe to keep quiet, a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her new employer. Now their newest job are playing detective.

Where is the real Jane Finn? The mere mention of her name produces a very strange reaction all over London. So strange, in fact, that they decided to find this mysterious missing lady. She has been missing for five years. And neither her body nor the secret documents she was carrying have ever been found. Now post-war England's economic recovery depends on finding her and getting the papers back. But he two young working undercover for the British ministry know only that her name and the only photo of her is in the hands of her rich American cousin. It isn’t long before they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever could have imagined—a danger that could put an abrupt end to their business… and their lives.

Genres

  • Classic Literature
  • English language
  • Fiction
  • Married people
  • Murder
  • Mystery
  • Private investigators
  • Problems, exercises
  • Report writing
  • Rhetoric
  • Tommy Beresford (Fictitious character)
  • Tuppence Beresford (Fictitious character)
  • Women detectives
  • Large type books
  • English language, rhetoric
  • English language, grammar
  • College readers
  • Youth
  • Adventure stories
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Missing persons
  • Beresford, tommy (fictitious character), fiction
  • Beresford, tuppence (fictitious character), fiction
  • Private investigators, fiction
  • Married people, fiction
  • England, fiction
  • Fiction, family life
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • Fiction, thrillers, general
  • Fiction, action & adventure
  • English literature
  • Fiction, family life, general
  • Fiction, thrillers, crime
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, private investigators
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
  • Fiction, general
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
  • Marple, jane (fictitious character), fiction
  • Great britain, fiction
  • Détectives
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Investigadores privados
  • Novela
  • Literature and fiction, mystery and suspense
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About the author

  • Agatha Christie

    15 September 1890 - 12 January 1976

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    1439 ratings · 1104 works

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