Again, fortunately what is good about The Secret Adversary more than makes up for any reservations. Partners in Crime is a very fun and light-hearted series that will cheer anybody up, a feeling that you do get also in The Secret Adversary. Tommy and Tuppence may not be as interesting or as distinctive as Miss Marple and Poirot, but the stories they feature in still have Agatha Christie's unmistakable style and they are compelling enough. If you don't, you may want to look elsewhere. If you love Tommy and Tuppence and the TV series Partners in Crime, you'll like The Secret Adversary. It does drag at times in the middle and Gavan O'Herlihy's acting does come across as awkward. It's not a gem, but in no way is it a disgrace. Fortunately, The Secret Adversary does work as an adaptation and on its own. Not all adaptations of her work has been great mind, seen with Austin Trevor's Lord Edgware Dies, The Alphabet Murders, the 1989 version of Ten Little Indians and Alfred Molina's Murder on the Orient Express, the worst of the Geraldine McEwan Marple adaptations were similarly hard to sit through. On films and TV, there have been some real gems, like with the Russian and 1945 versions of And Then There Were None, Witness for the Prosecution, Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express, the Peter Ustinov films of Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun and most of the Joan Hickson Miss Marple and David Suchet Poirot adaptations. I'd see anything adapted from Agatha Christie, as I love her books and writing style.
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