Christie throws in all sorts of red herrings, making us think of first one and then another character as the enemy. In addition, Tuppence shines in her clever and rather unique thought processes, which help her save the day.
It contains creative characters, a curious mystery, and an adventurous spy story. This book is one of my very favorite Agatha Christie novels, which is saying a lot given the high quality of her writing. Together the pair work together to flush out the enemy. Grant by spying on the spy and beat Tommy to San Souci, complete with an elaborate backstory only Tuppence might come up with. Blankensop raises her head only to reveal Tuppence! Our heroine has tricked Mr. Perenna, introduces him to all the other paying guests there, and as she goes around the room and gets to the last woman, Mrs. Meadows, arrives at Sans Souci ready to start his job. After a few days of training and getting his complete backstory sorted, Tommy, under the guise of Mr. So Tommy’s job is to locate N or M before it is too late. Intercepts showed that Hitler ordered N or M to go to England, N being his top male spy and M being the top female spy.
He proposes to send Tommy to Sans Souci, a hotel where he suspects the enemy may be. The intelligence agency has been infiltrated by people supporting Hitler, the so-called “Fifth Column,” and with fears that the enemy may invade any time, he needs to identify the “enemy within.” The problem is that he can’t use his usual intelligence services because he doesn’t know whom to trust, so he wants to bring in Tommy as the “irregular” force recommended by Mr. Grant opens up to Tommy that he has a job for him, but for only Tommy. Carter” of the first two books in the series, comes to visit Tommy but seems to merely linger until Tuppence gets a phone call from a friend who has just fallen and needs Tuppence to help her. The Second World War is just beginning to gain momentum, and both Tommy and Tuppence keep getting turned down for any forms of war work in the basis that they are too old, though their twins have no trouble getting work. Now, in 1941’s N or M?, the duo faces a much more serious adventure than before in serving their country by seeking out a spy. We last saw Tommy and Tuppence in 1929’s Partners in Crime, which ended with the announcement that Tuppence was ready to enter their biggest adventure yet, having a baby.
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