The Secret adversary Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love and flat broke. Just after the Great War, there were few jobs available and the couple were desperately short of money. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme Young Adventurers Ltd. The Murder on the Links In this novel Poirot is summoned to France at the urgent request of Monsieur P.T. Reynaud. However, Poirot and Hastings arrive too late, finding that Reynaud has been murdered, stabbed in the back and turned into a shallow grave on golfing links under construction.