This is the first Tommy and Tuppence book. I've read the ones that came later when they're middle-aged and it was nice seeing them young. This is also the first mystery they work together. I had thought they were way down there in my favorite Agatha Christie characters, but I'm actually enjoying ...
Fighting off boredom, poverty, and unemployment at the end of the first World War, two young friends, Tommy Beresford and Prudence Cowley -- we're told "their united ages would certainly not have totaled forty-five" -- decide over a lunch of tea and cheap biscuits to hang a shingle as the Young Adve...
Read through Daily Lit. A delightful surprise—it’s funny! Gently so.E.g.,"But if you are sure that you have enjoyed to the full the reaction of joy after despair with which I have kindly provided you free of charge, let us get down to our mail, as the saying goes.""He then says: 'Please take a seat,...
Originally reviewed at Here There Be Books.I didn't really have any expectations for this, mostly because I'm only familiar with Christie's Poirot books and not much else. However, I was immensely satisfied to discover that this is a truly excellent book. I had a lot of fun reading it! The action an...
Dreadful. The mystery itself is far from mysterious—I had it figured out very early on—but the tone in which it is written is what really sinks this book. The unions and “common people” distrust the government only because they are manipulated into it by criminals, the government itself is filled wi...
Newcomers to the work of Agatha Christie will be pleasantly surprised to discover the author's library extends beyond Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple to include the adventurous and endearing team of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. That said, it is also disappointing to note that despite an extensi...
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