Book description
Tommy & Tuppence are hired to track down wartime spies at a seaside resort…
It is World War II, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe
at bay, Britain faces an even more sinister threat from 'the enemy
within' - Nazis posing as ordinary citizens.
With pressure mounting, the Intelligence service appoints two unlikely
spies, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their mission: to seek out a man
and a woman from among the colourful guests at Sans Souci, a seaside
hotel. But this assignment is no stroll along the promenade. After all,
N and M have just murdered Britain's finest agent… 'As ingenious as ever.'
Guardian
'A nice surprise finish… all-round entertainment.'
Observer Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite
simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The
Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World
War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular
detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known
throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a
billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100
foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story
collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
