It’s also full of red herrings and they’re never very sure who they can trust. Tommy and Tuppence advertise for information relating to Jane Finn and have two responses. It’s a spy/detective story that is fast and furious with Tommy and Tuppence landing themselves in all sorts of dangerous situations. Reading it reminded somewhat of Enid Blyton’s adventure books, mixed up with P G Wodehouse’s books. From then on Tommy and Tuppence set out to find Jane Finn, a name Tommy had overheard from a conversation in the street. They are both stony broke and decide to set up a joint venture under the name of the Young Adventurers Ltd, initially intending to hire themselves out to commit crimes.Ī Mr Whittington overhears their conversation and offers Tuppence their first assignment, but when she tells him her name is ‘Jane Finn’ he acts very strangely and thinks she is blackmailing him. In this book they have just met up after World War One, both in their twenties: ‘an essentially modern-looking couple’. It was Agatha Christie’s second book and the first featuring Tommy and Tuppence. The Secret Adversary was first published in 1922.
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