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From the brilliant pen of agatha christie comes the first novel in her tommy and tuppence mystery series featuring the beloved sleuthing duonow a movie on both acorn tv and pbs. The secret adversary introduces tommy and tuppence who feature in three other christie novels and one collection of short stories. Christie 18901976 set the standard for the genre in more than 60 novels and dozens of short stories, creating two iconic detectives along the way. The secret adversary agatha christie table of contents the secret adversary. Set in 1919, young couple tommy beresford and tuppence cowley form a partnership, hiring themselves out as young adventurers. Just after world war i, tommy beresford and tuppence cowley are desperately short of money. Tommy and tuppence have a chance encounter on a train with an agitated young woman who suddenly disappears and never returns to her seat. Everything has to be a secret for tuppence but she learns about this.
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