SUMMARY: Full of energy and short of funds, old chums Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley decide to form the "Young Adventurers," and advertise themselves as willing to "go anywhere and do anything." Asked by a British Intelligence official to find a woman named Jane Finn, who disappeared with sen
The Secret Adversary
✍ Scribed by Agatha Christie
- Publisher
- MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
In their very first adventure, Tommy and Tuppence uncover an audacious plot to destroy Great BritainIn postwar London, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley are having a grand old time—except for the fact that they can barely afford a pot of tea between them. With no jobs to be had and no rich relations to bankroll them, they decide to form a joint venture: Young Adventurers, Ltd. They're willing to go anywhere and do anything so long as the pay as right. Maybe, suggests Tuppence, a clergyman's daughter, they'll even get to steal a diamond necklace.Before Tommy can place their first advertisement, Tuppence gets a job offer. Mr. Whittington wants to send her to Paris for three months, all expenses paid. The catch is that she has to pretend to be someone else—an American—and she can't talk to anyone she knows while she's there. It sounds too good to be true, and when Tuppence tries to protect herself with a pseudonym—"Jane Finn," an odd name that Tommy...
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