The Secret Adversary

Where is Jane Finn? And WHO is Mr. Brown? This is not your typical turn-of-the-century (of LAST century) parlor murder mystery. In this spy thriller, Agatha Christie introduces the reader to two unemployed post-World War I young adults who decide to become “adventurers for hire.” What could go wrong? What goes wrong is that the American girl they are hired to find is in the hands of a subversive group bent on destroying British democracy. All they have to do is to recover a lost document that, if revealed, will destroy confidence in the British government. The group, guided by a Mr. Brown will do ANYTHING to recover it and ANYTHING to stop anyone who gets in their way. Prudence “Tuppence” Cowley and Thomas “Tommy” Beresford continually seem to get in their way. Can they find Jane Finn? Might she help them recover the docu