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Title: N or M? by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0-451-20113-2 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 12 December, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best of Tommy and Tuppence I've ever read!
Comment: I decided to read this book because it not only was an Agatha Christie but it envolves Tommy and Tuppence. They are my favorite charcters and did not disapoint me. Tuppence is my favorite, of course, because she is so like me. However even if you aren't like me you will love this book. With just enough mystery and suspence mixed in with common logic Agatha Christie gave us another one of her famous stories. It's the best I've read in a long time
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding piece of wartime fiction!
Comment: Normally Agatha Christie chooses to focus on the mysteries and not really concentrate on political and social events of that period; consequently her characters sometimes seem to be living in a vaccuum, removed from all that is happening around them. What makes "N or M?" unusual is that Christie chose to focus on WWII and what was happening in England at that time. Tommy and Tuppence who are living quietly in London suddenly find their routine interrupted when Tommy is called away on a secret assignment to try and find Hitler's most dangerous agent who has infiltrated England in advance of a planned attack by the Nazis. Of course, Tuppence who refuses to be left out of anything, follows him and actively helps him while posing as a garrulous widow. The book is more powerful than most because of the very real sense of menace that Christie creates and the feeling of evil lurking in the air. Wingding suspense and a knock-out ending - the only flaw was the focus on romance. Normally, it is nice to have a romantic attachment develop in Christie's books as they provide a nice relief to the mystery, but in this case I thought she should have concentrated only on the mystery; romance is almost superfluous in such a setting. It's interesting to think that while Tommy and Tuppence never actually existed, there may have been characters like them - ordinary people who possessed above-average intelligence who were picked to lead dangerous spy missions and who succeeded precisely because they were so ordinary and therefore not what the enemy was expecting.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great setting, good plot
Comment: This is the 39th book Agatha Christie wrote. She published it in 1941, in the mid of World War II. It is said that she wrote this story while London was suffering under the German air attacks. Agatha never wanted to leave London during these attacks, because she felt too involved. The novel is one of two which the author worked on simultaneously during World War II while she stayed alone in London. She alternated writing 'Body in the Library' and 'N or M?' to keep herself "fresh at task."
Although not being a big fan of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford I must admit that this story was quite special. This book is one of the few Agatha Christie wrote that have a historical background. It has certainly a nice atmosphere to it. First I was a bit put-off by the amazingly unrealistic espionage rubbish often seen in this kind of books, but discovered to my surprise that some -not all- subplots would not have been miscast in an average Poirot adventure. It was quite refreshing to see that Agatha had put this story in an almost realistic setting: the struggle against collaborators that tried to prepare a German attack on the coast of England.
Not the best of her works, but certainly very close.
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Title: By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0451200527 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0451200535 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 10 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0451201175 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0451201205 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0312979819 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 19 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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