( An Autobiography by Agatha Christie page 506) However, they made a splendid come-back as a middle-aged pair, and tracked down spies with all their old enthusiasm. Now with a grown-up son and daughter, Tommy and Tuppence were bored by finding that nobody wanted them in wartime. One was The Body in the Library, which I had been thinking of writing for some time, and the other one was N or M?, a spy story, which was in a way a continuation of the second book of mine, The Secret Adversary, featuring Tommy and Tuppence. Then you have to put it by, and do other things – but I believed that if I wrote two books, and alternated the writing of them, it would keep me fresh at the task. I had decided to write two books at once, since one of the difficulties of writing a book is that it suddenly goes stale on you. She explained the reason in her Autobiography: Agatha Christie wrote this at the same time as writing The Body in the Library. N or M? is the third of the Tommy and Tuppence stories, set in 1940 and first published in 1941.
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