Tommy and Tuppence · Book 4
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
- Published
- 1 January 1968
- Pages
- 249
- ISBN-13
- 9780007111497
- Type
- novel
About this book
Released in 1968, By the Pricking of My Thumbs sits between N or M? and Postern of Fate in the Tommy and Tuppence reading order, finding the Beresfords elderly and drawn into a cold-case mystery as semi-retired grandparents.
Its place in Tommy and Tuppence
By the Pricking of My Thumbs is book 4 in the Tommy and Tuppence series. It follows N or M?. It is followed by Postern of Fate. See the full Tommy and Tuppence reading order.
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are Agatha Christie's other detective duo: a married couple of amateur adventurers who first meet as broke, restless twentysomethings just after the First World War and age in something close to real time across five books spanning more than fifty years, from post-war spy games in 1922 to elderly amateur sleuthing in the 1970s. Where Poirot and Marple stay fixed in a kind of eternal present, Tommy and Tuppence actually grow up, marry, raise children, and grow old together on the page…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007111497