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The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
4.0

Of the Agatha Christie books I recently read, this was far and away my favorite. I enjoyed the pacing, dialogue, edge-of-the seat adventure, and while I had two suspects in mind for the notorious Mr Brown, it wasn't until the closing chapters that Mr Brown's identity was revealed. Yes, the actual Mr Brown was one of my two suspects, but it was the uncertainty that kept up the suspense for me.

Years ago we (my husband and I) saw several of The Tommy and Tuppence stories dramatized (probably by the BBC) and shown on our local public television station. I enjoyed the mysteries back then, and it is quite possible this story was one of them. However, if that was the case, it apparently did not deflect from my current reading of the story; so much for memory! (And if I didn't see it dramatized, well then, memory didn't help either way!)

P.S. Yup, memory does play a role in this story. You'll just have to read it to find out how.