And Then There Were 65: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Time for Dame Agatha's very first thriller featuring the delightful detective duo Tommy & Tuppence taking on the devious criminal mastermind "Mr. Brown." Was Tuppence modeled at least somewhat on young Agatha herself? Is "hanging a lantern" an appropriate technique to use in a novel? Do American teenagers really know French *that* well? All these answers... and more!

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to our third podcast. I'm Catherine Brobeck and I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:07.6	And this is all about Agatha. In today's episode we are tackling Agathicristy's second book, The Secret Adversary, which sees
0:17.4	the introduction of Tommy and Tuppins.
0:20.1	Whoh!
0:21.1	Love Tommy and Top Ints.
0:24.0	Yeah.
0:25.0	I was published in the UK in January,
0:28.0	1922 by Christie's UK publisher, The Bodley Head.
0:32.0	It was later published at the US the same year.
0:34.7	And just to get things very quickly out of the way, synopsis wise,
0:39.2	Kemper is going to do ideally under two-bit it, a little bit of a rundown of the bare bones of
0:45.6	Chrissy's plot. All right, here it goes. Childhood friends Tommy Beresford and
0:51.2	prudence, aka Tuppensens Callley meet by accident in London
0:54.1	soon after the Great War. They go to a tea shop remarking on the scraps of
0:57.8	conversation you often overhear in such places. Tommy mentions hearing the
1:01.2	odd name Jane Finn the other day. After tea, Tuppens to stop by Tommy mentions her
1:04.0	the odd name Jane Finn the other day.
1:03.0	After tea, toppings to stop by a rather creepy man named Whittington
1:06.0	who offers her a hundred pounds to go to Paris.
1:08.0	Things get weirder when he asks her name and she says the first one that pops into her head,
1:12.0	Jane Finn.
1:13.8	He turns nasty, asks if Rita has been blabbing, and ends the interview abruptly.
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