The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
Publication: ManyBooks.net ebook, 219 pages, originally published 1922
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 4.5/5
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Summary from ManyBooks.net:
Set in 1919, young couple Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley form a partnership, hiring themselves out as ”young adventurers”. Their first case, however, is more of an adventure than they expect – working to find documents that, if they were known to the general public, would fuel a communist revolution in Britain.
I didn’t really have any expectations for this, mostly because I’m only familar with Christie’s Poirot books and not much else. However, I was immensely satisfied to discover that this is a truly excellent book. I had a lot of fun reading it! The action and drama was kept high throughout the course of the plot, and the twist at the end was marvelously well-done. I didn’t expect it at all– in fact, I thought I had worked out the solution about halfway through, but I was completely wrong. I love it when mystery books do that; it makes reading them into a fun game.
The characters were a bit harder to like, especially Tommy and Tuppence. They had a difficult time coming across as actual people, rather than pastiches of people. I don’t think I ever really broke through that thinking, but I did cheer them on to “win,” and I worried about Tommy when he was kidnapped, and I couldn’t stop smiling after T&T got engaged (that’s not a spoiler, is it? Surely everyone must know that they’re married, right?).
As I said before, I had a lot of fun reading this, and I’d easily recommend it to mystery fans, people who want to read something of Christie’s besides Poirot/Marple, and those who are fans of inter-war English detective fiction.
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