If there is one theme running through The Secret Adversary, it is coincidence. The Young Adventures get the papers to the good guys.or do they? It's all a rollicking, confusing good time that keeps readers on their toes. Carter (also not his real name) who is in British Intelligence and winds up hiring our heroes and the rich American cousin of the missing girl and we're in for a fast-paced adventure. There's a missing girl who has amnesia and, just by chance, probably knows where some top-secret, hush-hush papers are. Brown" who runs the whole show on the baddies side of things.
Pay must be good."īut before they can even place the ad, they find themselves plunged into a grand adventure full of spies and Bolsheviks and a mysterious man by the name of "Mr. By the end of the tea, they have decided to start a Join Venture-calling themselves The Young Adventurers Ltd and putting out an advertisement that they are for hire. They run into one another by chance at the Dover Street Tube exit and settle down for tea and a catch-up on old times. Tommy has pretty well gone through the money allotted him at demobilization and has had no luck at all finding a job. She's determined not to go back home and make life uncomfortable for her father. Tuppence is one of seven children to a timid, Victorian-minded archdeacon who doesn't know what to do with his modern daughter. The young people, who have been friends since childhood, are trying to make their way in the world after being demobbed after World War I. The Secret Adversary (1922) is Agatha Christie's second venture into the mystery field and the first to feature that daring young duo, Tommy and Tuppence. Murder for Christmas: Last Review of 2018.2019 Six Shooter Mystery Reading Challenge.The Winter Women Murders: Slightly Spoilerish Review.2019 Medical Examiner Mystery Reading Challenge.Star Trek Little Golden Books: mini-review.2018 Mount TBR Final Checkpoint Winner!.The Haunted Man & The Haunted House: Review.
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