The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $1.75.
The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one collection of short stories; the five Tommy and Tuppence books span Agatha Christie's writing career. The Great War is over, and jobs are scarce. Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley meet and agree to start their own business as The Young Adventurers. They are hired for a job that leads them both to many dangerous situations, meeting allies as well, including an American millionaire in search of his cousin.
Reviews were generally positive on this adventure, which manages to keep the identity of the arch-criminal secret to the very end.
The Secret Adversary or Adventures Inc. (German:Die Abenteurer G.m.b.H.) is a 1929 German silent mystery film directed by Fred Sauer and starring Carlo Aldini, Hilda Bayley and Eve Gray. It is an adaptation of the British writer Agatha Christie's 1922 novel The Secret Adversary.
The film's art direction was by Leopold Blonder and Franz Schroedter
Ancient serpent. Betrayer. War machine. Empires and kingdoms rise in your name. Towers are still being built. The dead lead the blind. A plague upon our house. Twin cities burn, pillars of salt are lost to the dust of time. Will you profit the world? Will you profit the world? Will you profit the world? Will you profit? No. Prophet, this world means nothing. Prophet, this world means nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing... Oh what a shame that we must learn of life from death. What a shame that we must learn of life from death. Take this world to the brink of war. KINGDOM. EMPIRE. REICH. Hell is coming. Better to die for truth than live for nothing. Better to die for truth than live for nothing.