![]() ![]() Nor did Tommy and Tuppence enjoy even half as many adventures as Agatha Christie‘s almost equally well-loved (and her personal favorite) village sleuth Miss Marple, whose first adventure ( Murder at the Vicarage) would not be published until 1930, and who would solve crimes in twelve novels and a total of twenty short story collections over an improbable period of 40+ years. The Secret Adversary (1922) and the short stories eventually collected in the slender volume Partners in Crime (1929) count among Agatha Christie‘s earliest publications early enough to have promised their quirky protagonists, Tommy and “Tuppence” (Prudence) Beresford as long and eventful a fictional career as that of their colleague Hercule Poirot, who had debuted two years prior to them with his own first case in The Mysterious Affair at Styles. ![]() An Enjoyable Romp Through the Swinging 1920s’ London ![]()
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