Secret Adversary (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

Two bright young characters of the Jazz Age start out looking for adventure and wind up saving England in Agatha Christie’sThe Secret Adversary. Childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Prudence “Tuppence” Crowley have hit hard times. It’s 1920, and the Great War is blessedly over. But the peace has left staid old England in upheaval and the young veteran and the pretty former nurse flat broke.  In t...