A review by outcolder
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

2.0

Full of silly Edgar Wallace type stunts. Right from the beginning you know the criminal mastermind secret adversary will prove to be an authority figure, like the man who was Thursday. Tommy and Tuppence have great chemistry but they’re separated for nearly the entire second act, leaving them to play off a grotesque characture of an American. It takes a while for the bad guys to do anything too dastardly and of course my sympathies are with Labour. The grand general strike that really did happen some few years after this book came out is the sort of thing we need now, so to have the good guys worried stiff about it was also a drag. Christie is just so fun though that I kept coming back to it for a few pages before the groans and eye rolls would lead me to exclaim, “dash it all!”