![]() ![]() ![]() I suspect I wouldn’t have cared much for this story in any case, but there were a good number of formatting errors, which really didn’t help. There’s lots of repetition and an impossible number of characters to keep track of. It lacks the clear, crisp execution of a Poirot and is missing the charisma I’d so quickly grown to expect. (The character never uses that phrase again) Whittington’s Offer, The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie ![]() “She had not the faintest comprehension of his meaning, but she was naturally quick-witted, and felt it imperative to ‘keep her end up’ as she phrased it.”įrom Chapter II, Mr. Rather too many instances of – some expression – as the character liked to say. Sadly, this work reads like a first novel. I promise, that is not a word I throw around lightly. Having read Agatha Christie’s first novel, ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles’ just about a month ago (and having decided to read everything she ever wrote, based on that first novel), I found ‘The Secret Adversary’ rather amateurish. I have to say, I was surprised by this one. They have few skills but much enthusiasm, and so, decide to put themselves out for whatever jobs come along – the first of which being a missing persons’ case. Tuppence and Tommy are dear friends (who are in love but not talking about it) looking for a means of making money. Book Review – The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries #1) by Agatha Christie ![]()
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