The Secret Adversary
(1922)
Blurb:
My review:
Dedicated “to all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure,” Christie’s second novel, a thriller rather than a detective story, succeeds in its aim. Although it is very much of its period, with a thick-witted but courageous young man and his plucky sweetheart defeating Mr. Brown, the treacherous master criminal behind Bolshevism, and his sinister gang of foreigners and Sinn Feiners, it is thoroughly entertaining throughout, even if not to be taken particularly seriously.