The Secret Adversary by Agatha ChristieMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley are childhood friends who reunite in London as young adults five years after the end of World War I. Both have been unsuccessfully looking for a job when they decide to form a joint venture called Young Adventurers, Ltd. with the motto of "Willing to do anything, go anywhere..." Soon they are hired to find important missing documents, track down a missing young woman, and get involved with even more mysteries and government intrigue.
This is Agatha Christie's second published book (1922), after Hercule Poirot's Mysterious Affair at Styles, published in 1920. It gives the reader a nice snapshot of London life in the 20's after the war - fashion, culture, restaurants, language/slang and much more. The story itself is typical Christie - lots of characters, twists and turns, red herrings, mistaken identities - which kept me guessing until the end.
I started reading Agatha Christie novels when I was a teenager, with no thought to reading each series in order. Many decades later I am embarking on reading each of the three series (Tommy and Tuppence, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple) in order to fully appreciate them. There are only five books in this series, published between 1922 and 1973, so it will be fun to read how the two of them age together.
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