The Secret Adversary The Secret Adversary The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer 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,
Places in the works of Madeleine L'Engle Places in the works of Madeleine L'Engle Madeleine L'Engle has published more than fifty books, including twenty-three novels, virtually all of them interconnected by recurring characters and locales. In particular, L'Engle's three major series have a consistent geography, including a number of significant fictional locations. These generally fall into two categories: Major fictional locations in L'Engle's novels include the following places, grouped by the series in which they appear. When Meg, Calvin and Charles Wallace travel to other planets, the ones whose names are given include the following: They also stop briefly on an unnamed two-dimensional planet and on an