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The Secret Adversary is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Christie, Agatha (1890–1976).
Catalogue synopsis
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"The Secret Adversary" by Agatha Christie is a detective novel published in January 1922. Two unemployed young friends, Tommy and Tuppence, form a business seeking adventure and quickly find themselves entangled in a dangerous conspiracy involving a missing woman, a secret treaty from the Lusitania, and a mysterious criminal mastermind known only as "Mr. Brown." Their investigation leads them through deception, kidnapping, and betrayal as they race to recover the treaty before it destabilizes the British government.
Book and edition facts
- Title: The Secret Adversary
- Author credits: Christie, Agatha (1890–1976)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Beresford, Tommy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Beresford, Tuppence (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Domestic fiction
- Married people -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- England -- Fiction
Gutenberg collections
- Category: Adventure
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
- Category: Novels
- Detective Fiction
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