Curious, they advertise for information regarding Jane Finn. When Tuppence suggests she uses the alias "Jane Finn", Whittington turns paranoid. Tuppence hears two men talking about a "Jane Finn" woman, before she is approached by one of the two gentlemen, Mr Whittington, who offers Tuppence a suspiciously comfortable job (posing as a young American woman in a French college). They are both penniless and resolve to become adventurers, forming "The Young Adventurers, Ltd". A mysterious man approaches a young American woman, thrusting her with important papers as she is more likely to survive.įour years later in London, demobilised soldier Tommy Beresford meets war volunteer Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley. The novel starts with a Prologue, during the sinking of RMS Lusitania in May 1915. The Secret Adversary is a 1922 detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing the characters of Tommy and Tuppence, two Young Bright Things in The Roaring '20s.
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