Their real mission is to intercept enemy messages, but in the meantime they handle their agency's cases. They are placed as the new owners of the International Detective Agency, a recently cleaned-out spy stronghold. Their second recorded case has them hired by Mr Carter again, on behalf of a government intelligence agency. Having fallen in love during the case, Tommy and Tuppence are engaged to marry. They are asked to search for Jane Finn, a survivor of RMS Lusitania 's sinking who disappeared along with documents of a secret treaty.įollowing the successful conclusion of their first case, Tommy is chosen as the heir of a rich uncle. They are soon hired by Mr Carter, a British intelligence leader. They agree to start their own business as The Young Adventurers. They are childhood friends and reunite after the war. With the Great War over, jobs are scarce and both characters are unemployed. She is one of several children of a conservative archdeacon, and served in the Voluntary Aid Detachment during the Great War. ![]() "Tuppence" Cowley is introduced as a young woman with black bobbed hair. Thomas "Tommy" Beresford is introduced as a young redheaded Englishman who fought in the Great War, wounded twice. In Postern of Fate the Beresfords also own a small dog named Hannibal. By Postern of Fate he has become the Beresfords' butler and has now been widowed. Throughout the series they employ a man named Albert, who first appears as a lift boy who helps them in The Secret Adversary, their hapless assistant at a private detective agency in Partners in Crime, and subsequently, as a now married pub owner, renders vital assistance to the pair in N or M?. As they age, they are revealed to have raised three children – twins Deborah and Derek and an adopted daughter, Betty. In their early appearances, they are portrayed as typical young people of the 1920s, and the stories and settings have a more pronounced period-specific flavor than other stories featuring more popular Christie characters. Unlike many other recurring detective characters, including the better known Christie detectives, Tommy and Tuppence aged in time with the real world, being in their early twenties in The Secret Adversary and in their seventies in Postern of Fate. It is in the first book The Secret Adversary that they meet up after the war, and come to realise that, although they have been friends for most of their lives, they have now fallen in love with each other. Tuppence appears as a charismatic, impulsive, and intuitive person while Tommy is less imaginative and less likely to be diverted from the truth (as their first adversary sums him up: "he is not clever, but it is hard to blind his eyes to the facts") which is why they are shown to make a good team. By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968 novel).Partners in Crime (1929 short story collection).They started out their career in search of adventure and money, and the detecting life soon proved profitable and very exciting. Tommy and Tuppence first appeared in Christie's The Secret Adversary (1922). Their full names are Thomas Beresford and his wife Prudence (née Cowley). Tommy and Tuppence are two fictional detectives, recurring characters in the work of Agatha Christie. Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim (radio).
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