N or M?

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Summary

Genre: Thriller, Espionage

Format: Novel

Setting: House

Location: England

Murder Method: Gunshot

Recurring Characters: Tommy and Tuppence, Albert Batt, Deborah Beresford

Synopsis

This atmospheric story, set during World War Two, finds Tommy and Tuppence doing what they do best – having an adventure. These unlikely Intelligence Service spies decide to help Queen and country by tracking down two ruthless traitors. The only clue to the traitors’ identities is a government agent's dying words that lead them to the Sans Souci boarding house, where it’ll take some extremely subtle detection work to establish which of the guests are the treacherous N and M.

Published in 1941, the novel is one of two which Christie worked on simultaneously during the Second World War whilst living alone in London. She alternated her writing of The Body in the Library and N or M? to keep herself "fresh at task."

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: Puffinjill
"It's interesting to see a character evolve over the years and grow with the passing time. Tommy and Tuppence also have, it could be said, more rounded lives as they marry and have children and devote much of their lives to 'normal' activites instead of spending their lives just solving cases. I think this brings a very human aspect into the way they both think when they are involved in a case."
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