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The Secret Adversary

by Agatha Christie

First Published

2009

Subjects

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

Description

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.

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