![]() ![]() Grant explains that another British agent was recently murdered but left a cryptic message on his deathbed: "N or M. Since Tommy has not been in the field for many years, nobody knows him, and he can investigate unofficially. ![]() Grant tries to find German spies and fifth columnists but is hampered by traitors within British intelligence who follow and sabotage his work. Then, Tommy is approached by a secret agent named Grant to go undercover once more. The novel is the first to feature the mature versions of her detectives Tommy and Tuppence, whose previous appearances had been in the adventure The Secret Adversary (1922) and the short story collection Partners in Crime (1929).Īfter the outbreak of the Second World War and many years after they worked for British intelligence, middle-aged Tommy and Tuppence Beresford feel useless and sidelined. It is an accident of typography that "nomina" came to be represented by "m". or M." here stands for the Latin, "nomen vel nomina", meaning "name or names". The title is taken from a catechism in the Book of Common Prayer which asks, "What is your Christian name? Answer N. The US edition retailed $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). N or M? is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1941 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November of the same year. ![]()
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