N or M

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Summary: 40+ English man & wife work undercover & stop German attack.
Review: During the war, a middle-aged, former undercover team, now husband and wife, agree to work for their government again on a special assignment. They must try to avert a major attack on England by Germany. In the course of their secret investigation at a backwater vacation spot, they meet some of the most unusual people and situations. You will vicariously share their fears and frustrations as they try to sort out the many clues. (Who was the mysterious foreign woman who kept lurking about, who tried to kidnap the very young daughter of a fellow lodger and was shot by the child's mother? Was their landlady a spy? Or was it one of their fellow lodgers? Is the old man who lives on the waterfront telling the truth about seeing signal lights across the water? Or is he just trying to get attention?) The suspense mounts as the couple's cover is unwittingly blown by a chance remark made by their daughter (who is working for the military and has no idea her parents are doing anything to help the war effort). The ending is one of Christie's biggest surprises. I bought this book hoping to find Poirot or Marple. Instead I found a couple equally (or even more) interesting. They soon seemed like old friends, and I hated to have the story end (even though it was so fascinating that I could not put it down.) This is a book you will never forget.

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Summary: A classic political thriller
Review: During World War II, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford follow an obscure clue to a small English seaside town where a Nazi mastermind is recruiting Englishmen to help their cause. But who at the hotel is the mastermind? When a young child is kidnapped, Tommy and Tuppence believe they're on the right track, but are they? This riveting thriller is Christie at her best. It's a noteworthy for the political slant she includes, because that's not terribly common for her books. It constantly amazes me the amount of pertinent details Christie includes for the readers. Some are red herrings, and some are decisive. Agatha Christie was certainly the best.

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Summary: "The bullet-headed Prussian officer...."
Review: How could anyone not love Tommy and Tuppence? They are so full of character, life, and vigor! N or M perfectly exemplifies the beloved characteristics of our dear sweet "Carrot Tops" and "Mrs. Blekensop." This book encorporates all the elements of the classic Mystery story: deceit, suspence, morse code, going undercover, and of course, romance. This is light-hearted must read for every Agatha Christie lover!

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Summary: The Best Book Ever Written
Review: I am rapidly running out of superlatives to describe this book and all other books written by this sensational author. The book is extremely hard to put down because Agatha Christie is, to put it simply, the best crime-fiction novelist there ever will be. I am in wraptures over this book. Sensational with a bizarre ending.

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Summary: The best of Tommy and Tuppence I've ever read!
Review: I decided to read this book because it not only was an Agatha Christie but it envolves Tommy and Tuppence. They are my favorite charcters and did not disapoint me. Tuppence is my favorite, of course, because she is so like me. However even if you aren't like me you will love this book. With just enough mystery and suspence mixed in with common logic Agatha Christie gave us another one of her famous stories. It's the best I've read in a long time

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Summary: awesome!
Review: i have been borrowing a couple of her books from the library after a long hiatus of 5-6 years. n or m is my first introduction to tommy and tuppence, and i must say they are a light-hearted, action-oriented departure from christie's other investigators, who give the impression of spending a lot of time in situ, whether at the murder scenes or comtemplating the case. christie veers from teh pack in her stubborn regard for the facts and teh circumstances; i have never done any professional spying, but i imagine if i did that i could take a few hints from her detailed analysis of how her characters think and act. so many detectives in detective novels strike you as so ordinary - some are not even very smart - but in this book you see the true complexity of wartime counter-espionage come to life, all the more frightening because it lurks beneath a veneer of everyday monotony. i love how she injects obscure words now and then...reminds you of a time when people didn't just use er..awesome as an umbrella expression for pleasure!

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Summary: awesome!
Review: i have been borrowing a couple of her books from the library after a long hiatus of 5-6 years. n or m is my first introduction to tommy and tuppence, and i must say they are a light-hearted, action-oriented departure from christie's other investigators, who give the impression of spending a lot of time in situ, whether at the murder scenes or comtemplating the case. christie veers from teh pack in her stubborn regard for the facts and teh circumstances; i have never done any professional spying, but i imagine if i did that i could take a few hints from her detailed analysis of how her characters think and act. so many detectives in detective novels strike you as so ordinary - some are not even very smart - but in this book you see the true complexity of wartime counter-espionage come to life, all the more frightening because it lurks beneath a veneer of everyday monotony. i love how she injects obscure words now and then...reminds you of a time when people didn't just use er..awesome as an umbrella expression for pleasure!

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Summary: The best book in the world!
Review: I totally disagree with the reader from Spokane, Washington. I, too, liked And Then There Were None, but N or M was great! How could it disapoint anybody who has read it? Tommy and Tuppence are great characters, and the plot is one of Christie's best. They say fools and children tell the truth, and although I may not be a fool, I am a child.

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Summary: Outstanding piece of wartime fiction!
Review: Normally Agatha Christie chooses to focus on the mysteries and not really concentrate on political and social events of that period; consequently her characters sometimes seem to be living in a vaccuum, removed from all that is happening around them. What makes "N or M?" unusual is that Christie chose to focus on WWII and what was happening in England at that time. Tommy and Tuppence who are living quietly in London suddenly find their routine interrupted when Tommy is called away on a secret assignment to try and find Hitler's most dangerous agent who has infiltrated England in advance of a planned attack by the Nazis. Of course, Tuppence who refuses to be left out of anything, follows him and actively helps him while posing as a garrulous widow. The book is more powerful than most because of the very real sense of menace that Christie creates and the feeling of evil lurking in the air. Wingding suspense and a knock-out ending - the only flaw was the focus on romance. Normally, it is nice to have a romantic attachment develop in Christie's books as they provide a nice relief to the mystery, but in this case I thought she should have concentrated only on the mystery; romance is almost superfluous in such a setting. It's interesting to think that while Tommy and Tuppence never actually existed, there may have been characters like them - ordinary people who possessed above-average intelligence who were picked to lead dangerous spy missions and who succeeded precisely because they were so ordinary and therefore not what the enemy was expecting.

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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: The first book of Agatha Christie's that I read was And Then There Were None. It was probably the best book I have ever read. I rushed out to get another one of her books and this was it. It ditn't even compare to And Then There None. I was very disappointed.