The secret adversary
From the brilliant pen of Agatha Christie comes the first novel in her Tommy and Tuppence mystery series featuring the beloved sleuthing duo -- now a movie on both Acorn TV and PBS. Tommy and Tuppence are young, in love... and flat broke. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring bu...
| Main Author: | Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. |
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| Other Authors: | Fraser, Hugh (Narrator) |
| Format: | Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Unabridged. |
| Series: |
Tommy and Tuppence mystery ;
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable Audiobook Here. |
| Summary: |
From the brilliant pen of Agatha Christie comes the first novel in her Tommy and Tuppence mystery series featuring the beloved sleuthing duo -- now a movie on both Acorn TV and PBS. Tommy and Tuppence are young, in love... and flat broke. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd. -- "willing to do anything, go anywhere." But they get more than they bargained for when their first assignment for the sinister Mr. Whittington draws them into a diabolical conspiracy. It isn't long before they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever could have imagined -- a danger that could put an abrupt end to their business... and their lives. |
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (7 audio files) : digital |
| Playing Time: |
07::3:9: |
| ISBN: |
9780062233820 |
| Author Notes: |
Noted for clever and surprising twists of plot, many of Christie's mysteries feature two unconventional fictional detectives named Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Poirot, in particular, plays the hero of many of her works, including the classic, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and Curtain (1975), one of her last works in which the famed detective dies. Over the years, her travels took her to the Middle East where she met noted English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. They married in 1930. Christie accompanied Mallowan on annual expeditions to Iraq and Syria, which served as material for Murder in Mesopotamia (1930), Death on the Nile (1937), and Appointment with Death (1938). Christie's credits also include the plays, The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution (1953; film 1957). Christie received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for 1954-1955 for Witness. She was also named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971. Christie died in 1976. (Bowker Author Biography) |