Christie actually wrote was a Tommy and Tuppence adventure Postern of Fate though several other manuscripts written earlier were published after that book.) In 1929, she published a book of short stories called Partners in Crime featuring the sprightly duo who were asked by Scotland Yard to run a detective agency and investigate mysteries, most of which scholars consider minor Christie at best. Christie would intermittently pop in on Tommy and Tuppence as they aged into parents and then grandparents but always harboring a lingering sense of adventure and write about their latest caper. The Secret Adversary introduced Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley, former school chums who get tangled up in post-World War I espionage and fall in love. Rather, she plotted the first of what turned out to be occasional thrillers she enjoyed writing and featured two young madcaps who longed for adventure. With each episode more gripping than the last, Tommy and Tuppence are the Holmes and Watson of their day, with a little more romance and a lot more champagne.After Agatha Christie made her first big splash in the literary world with The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920, she decided her next book would not feature Hercule Poirot and would not be an old school mystery.

A master and mistress of disguise with a reputation amongst bellboys everywhere for being the worst tippers in town, they undertake a vast array of cases from missing persons and haunted houses, through smuggling, thievery, connivance, skullduggery and, of course, murder. Partners in Crime, finds Tommy and Tuppence newly married and turning pro, as they launch their International Detective Agency. The Secret Adversary finds the two intrepid amateur detectives undertaking a mission which turns out to have grave consequences for the nation as a whole, involving a secret treaty, Bolshevik uprisings, a missing young lady by the name of Jane Finn and a mysterious villain who goes by the alias of Mr. This complete collection features all ten episodes of the TV series Partners in Crime, along with the feature-length prequel introducing them, The Secret Adversary. Thus begins the adventures of Tommy and Tuppence.

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