I decided to head back to Agatha Christie and Tommy and Tuppence for their next novel, N or M? Apparently, the title comes from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer which asks your Christian name, “Answer N. or M.” which is supposed to stand for “name or names.”
This is a
different Christie novel, not really about a murder but about the German Fifth
Column in England during World War II. Tommy
and Tuppence are “too old” to help with the war effort, but they work their way
into this spy work, going undercover trying to find the male and female head of
the Fifth Column, who are known as “N.” and “M.”
Not sure if it
was just my mood recently, but I wasn’t really into it. It’s probably at the bottom of my list of
Christie novels that I have read. I will
say that towards the end I was looking up what others thought about it, to see
if others agreed with me (they don’t) and noticed for the first time it was written
in 1941, which made it a bit more interesting for me knowing that they really
did have this fear at the time and did not know the eventual result of
WWII. Still, for me, it wasn’t up to the
usual high caliber that I expect from Christie.
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