Bill Peschel, author of “The Complete, Annotated Mysterious Affair at Styles,” “The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?” and “Writers Gone Wild,” reads between the lines of Christie’s first thriller and tells the fascinating stories behind it. Brown” to destroy the nation! Can Tommy and Tuppence defeat Bolshevists, Sinn Feiners, trade unionists and Labourites and save Britain in her hour of peril?Īgatha Christie created intricate stories of murder and mayhem that have enchanted millions of readers worldwide. When they’re hired by the government to hunt for a missing treaty, they discover a plot led by the mysterious “Mr. Joining forces, they advertise that they’ll do anything for money. Recently released from their wartime service, Tommy and Tuppence are young, energetic.

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It would be bad enough if the problem was only with the younger male characters, but she even puts on a false, high-pitched, sing-songey voice for Tuppence! Instead of making Tuppence sound young (which I assume is the intent) it makes her come off like a high strung old lady! It would have been far better if the narrator had just read the book without any attempts to 'act' it out. An older woman attempting to sound like young men just comes off as simply ridiculous and really distracts from the story. She sounds like she must be a much older woman and yet all the main characters are young twenty and thirty-somethings.

The narrator does such a terrible job I just can't understand why she was chosen for this project. If the plot didn't have the usual Christie twists and suspense, I wouldn't have been able to get through it. The book does suffer from some cringe-producing dialogue (especially with Christie's attempts at American lingo), but listening to the audio version was torturous. I had read this years ago I thought it would be a fun and nostalgic listen.

Agatha christie's the secret adversary