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The Secret Adversary
(Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries #1),
by Agatha Christie.
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This one begins with a quiet explosion in the mind of a reader well acquainted with history, in that the story begins on board Lusitania as it was sinking. There's a mysterious important package changing hands as a young girl is about to board a lifeboat.
But almost immediately that mystery is rushed behind curtains, and we are introduced to Tommy and Tuppence, a most delightful young pair. Decades ago when one read a great deal of this author, one did come across this pair, but one suspects this is the first time one is introduced to them, so to speak. Inspector Japp one remembers.
The mystery and chase and suspense are first rate, and one waits for explanations about the missing package, which come in small doses. But after the unsatisfactory roundabout concerning a treaty, there never is an explanation of precisely just how a wartime draft of a treaty was to be disastrous for U.K. and had Russian criminal minds pushing it's exposure for the purpose, if it was drafter in U.S. and handed over by a British agent before Lusitania went down, to a young girl for safekeeping.
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April 29, 2021 - May 01, 2021.
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