UFFF, definitivo no es de mis favoritos de Agatha.Aunque se sintió bastante fresco porque no es la fórmula que suele utilizar la autora, se nota que fue un libro bastante experimental.Tiene dos protagonistas carismáticos y un misterio bastante atractivo desde las primeras páginas. Mi conflicto fue que algunas escenas eran sumamente largas y cansadas de leer. Estaba un poco desordenada la narrativa y también confusa para identificar a todos los personajes que iban apareciendo.Sin embargo, le apla...

I must admit, I don't think I have ever read a Tommy and Tuppence novel despite reading Agatha Christie's books for 50 years (gosh that sounds scary, where has the time gone ? ). That said I have seen a number of T & T episodes on TV with various combinations of actors/actresses. But even so, I did not remember this story at all.Both in dire straits financially, they decide given their lack of any other skills, that they should combine and form an adventure company to solve mysteries for oth...

The first book of the Tommy & Tuppence series is not a murder-mystery. It is rather a thriller involving secret documents, spies, and secret criminal organizations. I've read many Agatha Christies - more murder mysteries than thrillers - and I've enjoyed her more in her "whodunnits" than in her thrillers. It is the same here. It was fun and entertaining, even humorous, but not quite to the mark of her murder-mysteries; at least it was for me. Despite my personal preference, it was an interes...

It was Agatha Christie's second book and the first one featuring Tommy and Tuppence.Unlike the later books,where they are middle aged and then old,here they are young and not yet married.It was quite a contrast reading this soon after Postern of Fate,Christie's last book and the last adventure of the old couple,Tommy and Tuppence,in which they remember their young days and the past a great deal.The action begins with the sinking of the passenger ship,Lusitania,during World War I.As women and chi...

العدو السري او العدو الخفي ثاني رواية ألفتها ملكة البوليسية اجاثا كريستي في عشرينيات القرن الماضي .. في إطار ممتع ومشوق تظهر لنا اول رواية في سلسلة روايات (تومي وتوبينس) للنور واول رواية تجميع بين هاتين الشخصيتين الشابتين الجامعتين لطيش الشباب والفضول والذكاء تومي وتوبينس اصدقاء قديمان .. يلتقيان بعد عدة سنين بلا هدف ولا مال , في محاولة لإيجاد طريقة ما او وسيلة لكسب المال منها ولكن بطرق ممتعة . يتفق الشابين على مشروعهما الجديد المشترك (شركة الشباب المغامرين المحدودة ) للتحريات والتحقيق...

EXCERPT: It was 2 pm on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. The Lusitania had been struck by two torpedoes in succession and was sinking rapidly, while the boats were being launched with all possible speed. The women and children were being lined up awaiting their turn. Some still clung desperately to husbands and fathers; others clutched their children closely to their breasts. One girl stood alone, slightly apart from the rest. She was quite young, not more than eighteen. She did not seem afraid, an...

I've already read many Agatha Christie's books and I like almost everything from her. But this was one of the weakest Agatha's Christie's books that I ever read. But it's okay, this was only the second book that she wrote, and she was not as mature, confident and inspired as a writer.

Secret Adversary is the first Tommy & Tuppence novel. Ta-da! I'm not going to claim that it's great, but it was entertaining. And Christie managed to make me think I KNEW who the hell dunnit, only to jerk the rug out from underneath me...again. <--to be fair, that's kind of her thing, you know?You know what was cute, though? All the snappy dialogue between the not-quite-yet lovebirds. I mean, it's probably not snappy by today's standards, but back in the day, I'm betting this was qui...

IT was 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. The Lusitania had been struck by two torpedoes in succession and was sinking rapidly, while the boats were being launched with all possible speed.This is still one of the most intriguing Agatha Christie opening lines I have read (another can be found in Murder on the Orient Express, but I'll get to that in a different post). The Secret Adversary is the first adventure of Miss Prudence Cowley and Lieutenant Thomas Beresford, a.k.a. Tommy and Tuppenc...

I am hosting an Agatha Christie Readathon on my blog in April 2018 where we are reading one of her books each week. The first book up, The Secret Adversary, is the initial entry in the Tommy & Tuppence cozy mystery series she's written. Although I've read a bunch of her novels, I hadn't read anything in this particular series, so I was glad that one of them won the poll to choose our books that I had set up earlier this year.In this caper, Tommy and Tuppence, ~22 year old somewhat poor resid...