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Description edit
Tommy and Tuppence take over a detective agency and assume the methods of such great fictional detectives as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot to solve case after case...
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Thomas Beresford: An idle young man who has turned from blackmail to detection.
- Prudence "Tuppence" Beresford.: A new wife who is possibly a little bored, and probably a lot flippant. Heroine of this title and accomplice of Mr. Thomas Beresford.
- Albert: Tommy and Tuppence's helper
- Mr. Blunt: Tommy's alias
- Mr. Carter: Add a description of this character.
- Sessle: man murdered with a hat pin
- Arthur
- Mr. Montgomery Jones
- Mrs. Honeycott
- Dr. Burton
- Mr. Ryder
- Mr. Le Marchant
- Mr. Wilmott
- Mr. Rennie
- Mrs. Betts
- Inspector Marriot: Chief detective at the Scotland Yard
- Hale
- Mrs. Van Snyder
- Doris Evans
- Miss Robinson: Tuppence's alias
- Lady Laura
- Mrs. Leigh Gordon
- Gilda Glen
- Dr. Bower
- Crockett
- Richards
- Dennis Radclyffe
- Miss Hargreaves
- Dr. O'neill
- Coggins
- Lady Susan
- Miss Drake
- James Reilly
- Lois Hargreaves
- Marguerite Laid
- Westerham
- Mr. St. Vincent
- Mr. Stavansson
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
Mrs. Thomas Beresford shifted her position on the divan and looked gloomily out of the window of the flat.
Table of Contents edit
1. A Fairy in the Flat
2. A Pot of Tea
3. The Affair of The Pink Pearl
4. The Affair of The Pink Pearl (continued)
5. The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger
6. The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger (continued)
7. Finessing the King
8. The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper
9. The Case of the Missing Lady
10. Blindman's Bluff
11. The Man in the Mist
12. The Man in the Mist (continued)
13. The Crackler
14. The Crackler (continnued)
15. The Sunningdale Mystery
16. The Sunningdale Mystery (continued)
17. The House of Lurking Death
18. The House of Lurking Death (continued)
19. The Unbreakable Alibi
20. The Clergyman's Daughter
21. The Red House
22. The Ambassador's Boots
23. The Man Who Was No. 16
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 8 in Tommy and Tuppence. (standard series)
Preceded by The Secret Adversary , and followed by N or M?.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Agatha Christie (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: William Collins and Son
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1929
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 256
Publisher: William Collins and Son
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1929
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 256
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.912
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Movie Connections edit
- Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime (IMDb): 1983 TV Series of 10 episodes. Staring Francesca Annis as Tuppence and James Warwick as Tommy.
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