18 books like The Secret Adversary

What to read after The Secret Adversary — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Essay Connection Lynn Z. Bloom · 1991 · 753p · ≈ 25h · Moderate Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Recipe reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach, in addition to the obvious instructions on how to prepare a dish or perform a process. These include lessons in hospitality, friendship, community, family and ethnic heritage, tradition, nutrition, precision and order, invention and… Shares: Report writing, Rhetoric, Problems, English language

Postern of Fate Agatha Christie · 1973 · ★ 3.2 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Tommy and Tuppence Beresford return in Christie’s classic Postern of Fate, to investigate a deadly poisoning sixty years after the fact. Shares: Tommy Beresford, Tuppence Beresford, Married people, Private investigators

By the Pricking of My Thumbs Agatha Christie · 1968 · ★ 3.8 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes."William Shakespeare – Macbeth (Act IV, Scene 1)When visiting Tommy's Aunt Ada in her nursing home, Tuppence encounters some odd residents, Mrs Lancaster, being the strangest of them all. Her incessant reference to 'something behind the fireplace' and a 'poor child' seems at first the incoherent ramblings of an elderly woman, though… Shares: Tommy Beresford, Tuppence Beresford, Married people, Private investigators

Partners in Crime Agatha Christie · 1929 · ★ 3.8 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are Partners in Crime—or rather partners in crime solving—and must demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range of confounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leap… Shares: Tommy Beresford, Tuppence Beresford, Private investigators, Mystery

The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie · 1920 · ★ 4.0 · 179p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Set in the summer of 1917 in an Essex country estate, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St. Mary manor of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed old aunt Emily, she of a sizeable fortune, to a suspicious younger man, Alfred Inglethorp, twenty years her junior. Emily's two stepsons, John… Shares: Tommy Beresford, Tuppence Beresford, Private investigators, Classic Literature

N or M? Agatha Christie · 1941 · ★ 3.8 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Challenging This novel, set during World War II, sees Tommy and Tuppence Beresford appointed as spies by the intelligence service. Their mission: to seek out the Nazis in disguise, a man and a woman from among the colourful guests at a seaside hotel. Shares: Tommy Beresford, Tuppence Beresford, Married people, Private investigators

Ways of reading David Bartholomae · 1987 · ★ 3.6 · 903p · ≈ 30h · Moderate A book of stories and essays by famous writers with comprehensive suggestions for in depth assignment topics for students. Authors included are Saul Bellow, John Berger, Raymond Carver, Robert Coles, Thomas Cottle, Stephen Klineberg, Annie Dillard, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stanley Fish, Paulo Freire, Sigmund Freud, Clifford Geertz, Thomas Kuhn, Joyce Carol Oates, Walker Percy,… Shares: Report writing, Rhetoric, Problems, English language

From idea to essay Jo Ray McCuen · 1977 · ★ 4.0 · 702p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Respected and relied upon, FROM IDEA TO ESSAY is a rhetorically arranged rhetoric/ reader/research paper guide/handbook that systematically leads students through the complex process of writing an essay. Part I covers the fundamentals of essay writing. The heart of the book, Part II, teaches the nine rhetorical modes in nine identically structured chapters. Part III discusses essay examinations… Shares: Report writing, Rhetoric, Problems, English language

Accidental Genius Mark Levy · 2010 · ★ 3.9 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Mark Levy teaches readers a wonderful mental technology, freewriting, that helps you dive deep into your unconscious to discover treasures."—B. J. Bueno, coauthor of The Power of Cult Branding   When it comes to creating ideas, we hold ourselves back. That's because inside each of us is an internal editor whose job is to forever polish our thoughts so we sound smart and in control and so… Shares: Rhetoric, Problems, English language

The undergraduate essay Robin Sutton Harris · 1900 · 104p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares: Report writing, Rhetoric, English language

A short guide to writing about literature Sylvan Barnet · 1968 · ★ 3.7 · 394p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Part of Longman's successful Short Guide Series, A Short Guide to Writing about Literature emphasizes writing as a process and incorporates new critical approaches to writing about literature. The twelfth edition continues to offer students sound advice on how to become critical thinkers and enrich their reading response through accessible, step-by-step instruction. This highly respected text is… Shares: Report writing, Rhetoric, English language

The two destinies Wilkie Collins · 1876 · ★ 3.7 · 102p · ≈ 3h · Challenging One of Wilkie Collins's 'sensation' novels of two lovers who face a life of accidents and vicissitudes when they are parted cruelly as children. Unknown to each other as the children they once were, they meet again and again in their adult lives, only to be separated. Wilkie brings in in his favourite tricks - bigamy, embezzlement, desertion, disfigurement, love that cannot be undone even in the… Shares: Married people, Mystery

The Law and the Lady Wilkie Collins · 1875 · ★ 3.8 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Three years ago, her husband stood accused of murder -- and the verdict that came in from the jury was the Scottish Verdict, Not Proven. The jury had not evidence enough to convict him -- nor enough to comfortably exonerate him. Eustace could not bear the weight of her discovery; he fled to the continent, to live in anonymity. But Valeria knew her husband, and she loved him. She knew he was… Shares: Married people, Women detectives, Murder, Classic Literature

The writer's book of memory Janine Rider · 1995 · 153p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Memory has long been ignored by rhetoricians because the written word has made memorization virtually obsolete. Recently however, as part of a revival of interest in classical rhetoric, scholars have begun to realize that memory offers vast possibilities for today's writers. Synthesizing research from rhetoric, psychology, philosophy, and literary and composition studies, this volume brings… Shares: Report writing, Rhetoric, English language

Expressive Writing Kathleen Adams · 2013 · 259p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. For decades, it has been the province of journals, memoirs, poets, and language arts classrooms. Social science research now provides indisputable evidence that expressive writing is also healing. In this remarkable collection, eight leading… Shares: Rhetoric, Problems, English language

Making sense Margot Northey · 1987 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Moderate With more than 25 years on the market, Making Sense in the Social Sciences: A Student's Guide to Research and Writing is entering its fifth edition. This volume is intended for undergraduate students in any social sciences course with a research and writing component. Its likeliest home will be in first-year courses; however, it is also suitable for students at the second- and third-year level.… Shares: Report writing, Rhetoric, English language

The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett · 1934 · ★ 4.4 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners. Shares: Married people, Women detectives, Private investigators, Mystery

Ghost in the Gallery Carolyn Keene · 1955 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A ghostly figure, a walking suit of armor, and a gargoyle in the prompter's box confront Jean and Louise Dana and their Starhurst classmates as they rehearse for a musical at Mozart Hall. The owner, a retired singer, and the watchman assure the performers there is nothing to worry about. The students wonder whether their imaginations are playing tricks on them. Or are spooky things actually… Shares: Women detectives, Mystery

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