The Secret Adversary

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Penguin, Jan 1, 2001 - Fiction - 242 pages
Hiring themselves out as 'young adventurers willing to do anything' proves to be a smart move for Tommy and Tuppence. The first job sounds like a dream. All Tuppence has to do 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 new employer. Now Tuppence's newest job is playing detective - because if there's a 'Jane Finn' that really exists, she's got a secret that's putting both their lives in danger.
 

Contents

Prologue
1
The Young Adventurers Ltd
3
Mr Whittingtons Offer
12
A Setback
20
Who Is Jane Finn? 2
26
Mr Julius P Hersheimmer
35
A Plan of Campaign 41
41
The House in Soho
48
Tuppence Receives a Proposal
121
Further Adventures of Tommy
128
Annette
137
The Telegram
152
Jane Finn
165
Too Late
175
Tommy Makes a Discovery
181
In Downing Street
187

The Adventures of Tommy
54
Tuppence Enters Domestic Service 88 2 2
63
Enter Sir James Peel Edgerton
72
Julius Tells a Story
79
A Friend in Need
88
The Vigil
104
A Consultation
114
A Race Against Time
193
Julius Takes a Hand
200
Janes Story
210
Mr Brown
223
A Supper Party at the Savoy
229
And After
239
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One of the most successful and beloved writer of mystery stories, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay, County Devon, England. She wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, launching a literary career that spanned decades. In her lifetime, she authored 79 crime novels and a short story collection, 19 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language with another billion in 44 foreign languages. Some of her most famous titles include Murder on the Orient Express, Mystery of the Blue Train, And Then There Were None, 13 at Dinner and The Sittaford Mystery. Noted for clever and surprising twists of plot, many of Christie's mysteries feature two unconventional fictional detectives named Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Poirot, in particular, plays the hero of many of her works, including the classic, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and Curtain (1975), one of her last works in which the famed detective dies. Over the years, her travels took her to the Middle East where she met noted English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. They married in 1930. Christie accompanied Mallowan on annual expeditions to Iraq and Syria, which served as material for Murder in Mesopotamia (1930), Death on the Nile (1937), and Appointment with Death (1938). Christie's credits also include the plays, The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution (1953; film 1957). Christie received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for 1954-1955 for Witness. She was also named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971. Christie died in 1976.

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