The Secret Adversary

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

“Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No reasonable offer refused"

Tommy Beresford and Prudence “Tuppence” Cowley are broke. What are two young people in post-WWI London to do in such a situation except start up a new and exciting business: Young Adventurer’s Ltd.

Almost as soon as they make the leap into self-employment a case falls into their lap. A mysterious man wishes to hire Tuppence for a job. All she has to do is impersonate a young American woman in Paris. Easy!

Except all is not as it seems, and soon the pair are hurled into the perilous world of espionage as they try to discover who the mysterious Jane Finn is, and where she has hidden secret documents that could take down the British government.

Public Domain (P)2025 Spoken Realms

Agatha Christie is one of the best mystery writers

For a book that was written in 1922 it had all the suspense of a modern day thriller. What really got me about this book however, was the beautiful English language and Agatha Christie'ss usage of vocabulary. People don't speak like that anymore and it's too bad. I highly recommend this book.