Tommy laid his paper finally aside. 'There's something of the simplicity of the truly great mind about you, Tuppence. Fire ahead. I'm listening.''To begin with,' said Tuppence, 'what have we to go upon?''Absolutely nothing,' said Tommy cheerily.'Wrong!' Tuppence wagged an energetic finger. 'We have two distinct clues.'—The Secret AdversaryIt started with the sinking of the Lusitania...An American, carrying secret papers, placed them in the care of a young American woman. The American survived, but the girl disappeared. The papers she carried are lost—the fate of England's postwar recovery depends upon them. In her first Tommy and Tuppence novel, Agatha Christie delivers, once again, a clever, surprising and suspenseful thriller of a mystery.

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