The Secret Adversary
A Tommy and Tuppence mystery
Two demobbed friends with no money and no prospects advertise themselves in the personal columns as willing to do anything and go anywhere, and inside a week they are hired by somebody who should not have known they existed. Christie's second novel, and the first of the five Tommy and Tuppence books — lighter than Poirot, faster, and the closest she came to writing a thriller.
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“TO ALL THOSE WHO LEAD MONOTONOUS LIVES IN THE HOPE THAT THEY MAY EXPERIENCE AT SECOND HAND THE DELIGHTS AND DANGERS OF ADVENTURE Contents PROLOGUE CHAPTER I. THE YOUNG ADVENTURERS, LTD. CHAPTER II. MR. WHITTINGTON’S OFFER CHAPTER III. A SET BACK CHAPTER IV. WHO IS JANE FINN? CHAPTER V. MR. JULIUS P. HERSHEIMMER CHAPTER VI. A PLAN OF CAMPAIGN CHAPTER VII. THE HOUSE IN SOHO CHAPTER VIII. THE ADVENTURES OF TOMMY CHAPTER IX. TUPPENCE ENTERS DOMESTIC SERVICE CHAPTER X. ENTER SIR JAMES PEEL EDGERTON CHAPTER XI. JULIUS TELLS A STORY CHAPTER XII. A FRIEND IN NEED CHAPTER XIII. THE VIGIL CHAPTER XIV. A CONSULTATION CHAPTER XV. TUPPENCE RECEIVES A PROPOSAL CHAPTER XVI. FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOMMY CHAPTER XVII. ANNETTE CHAPTER XVIII. THE TELEGRAM CHAPTER XIX. JANE FINN CHAPTER XX. TOO LATE CHAPTER XXI. TOMMY MAKES A DISCOVERY CHAPTER XXII. IN DOWNING STREET CHAPTER XXIII. A RACE AGAINST TIME CHAPTE”
- Genre
- Mystery
- Length
- 251 pages
- Reading time
- 5 to 6 hours
- Language
- English
- Format
- EPUB · DRM-free
- File size
- 278 kB
- Released
- 1998
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About Chris Nohall
Mystery, sensation and faerie romance from the years before any of it had a genre label. I take texts nobody owns and make editions worth paying for: clean typography, working contents pages, no scanner noise, and sets that belong together. Everything here is DRM-free — the file is yours once you have it.