Tommy and Tuppence · Book 2
Partners in Crime
- Published
- 1 January 1929
- Pages
- 226
- ISBN-13
- 9780006127772
- Type
- collection
About this book
Released in 1929, Partners in Crime sits between The Secret Adversary and N or M? in the Tommy and Tuppence reading order, a linked short-story collection in which the newly married pair run a detective agency and parody other era detectives like Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown.
Its place in Tommy and Tuppence
Partners in Crime is book 2 in the Tommy and Tuppence series. It follows The Secret Adversary. It is followed by N or M?. 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 9780006127772