Rating: 
Summary: Fun to Read But Easy to Guess
Review: Tommy and Tuppence are great. They're fun, young, and full of ideas. The other characters are just as entertaining and 'seeable': Sir James Peel, Marguerite, Jane Finn, etc. The S.A. is very easy to read. Your eyes just skim from page to page, which is really quite usual with Christie. Nothing is overly confusing, the plot is comparatively easy to follow. The dialogue is clever, humorous, and fun. The denouemount, however...If you're looking out for it even a little, the whole thing opens up blatantly for all to see. But even then, the story was so entertaining that all I really felt was proud of myself for figuring out a Christie ending before the end, rather than jilted.
Rating: 
Summary: "T N T"!
Review: Wearily ensconced in a London hotel, a pre-married Tommy and Tuppence ponder their future after the war, most specifically how to earn an income with minimal skills and desire for heavy labor. A chance encounter with an eavesdropper promises a mysterious yet intriguing task, but quickly falls through when an uncomfortable Tuppence gives a false name to her would-be employer (Jane Finn, a name dropped by two passing gentlemen when Tommy himself was eavesdropping on conversations) and is accused of blackmail.Money no longer a concern, The Young Adventurers, LTD., as Tommy and Tuppence have christened themselves, decide to sleuth to satisfy their own curiosity about the nondescript Jane Finn and why the girl is suddenly so popular. Soon they are employed for real, charged by Jane's millionaire Americn cousin to find the girl, missing since her rescue from the sinking Lusitania, and implored by one Mr. Carter to retrieve documents believed to have been on Miss Finn's person at the time, documents that could threaten the entire security of Britian and threaten the validity of post-war treaties. When a potential witness is murdered before she can offer any helpful information with regards to Jane and "Mr. Brown," the ringleader of the organization behind the threats, The Young Adventurers find enough adventure for two lifetimes. In Secret Adversary, Christie offers perhaps one of her most complex mysteries -- a forerunner to the contemporary political thriller. The combination of Tommy's deductive intellect and Tuppence's wit and zeal are compelling to read, yet sadly addictive. Given the dearth of stories featuring these two, one may be left to wonder about the large gaps in between the Tommy and Tuppence novels and what adventures may have happened in the interim. For any mystery fan, however, Secret Adversary is a must read, a story that despite its setting will always be ageless.
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