A review by dreamingofspaceships
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

4.0

A good, fun adventure book that also has some pretty terrible and incredibly bourgeoisie politics (I cringed so hard every time the Edgerton character was referred to as "the great man"), which did mar my enjoyment a little bit. The macguffin is also possibly one of the most macguffin-esque macguffins I have ever seen: "they are diplomatic papers from 5 years ago and if anyone so much as sees it, it will be like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. What's in it? Oh I can't possibly tell you!" The Americanisms and the general speech and manner of the main American character is almost at a parody level. Anyway, even with all this, and my general aversion (or more like apathy) toward this particular series, I quite enjoyed it this time around. Tuppence is a great character and Tommy is pretty good too - it is a pity that they are separated for most of the book however.

Reread (listen) after more than a decade - before starting, I remembered only one detail from the book - the "Two Pence"/"Tuppence" thing from near the end. Then the main reveal came to me at around the halfway point of the book. So I suppose I should rate this pretty highly in terms of memorability as well.