A New MystereBook: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers during May 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie is the first adventure for Tommy and Tuppence, originally published by The Bodley Head (UK) and Dodd, Mead (US) in 1922, and the author's second published novel after her Hercule Poirot investigation into The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

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The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
A Tommy and Tuppence Adventure
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Publication Date: May 27, 2014
Price: $0.99 (as of 05/28/14 12:00 PM ET)

In 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 recently overheard — Whittington's reaction is equal parts anger and admiration. Accusing Tuppence of blackmail, he gives her fifty pounds and disappears.

Of course, the Young Adventurers refuse to leave it at that. Setting out to find the mysterious Jane Finn, they stumble into a deadly conspiracy that stretches all the way back to the sinking of the Lusitania and now threatens to undo everything England won in the Great War.

  

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