Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mysteries
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Published in January 1922, "The Secret Adversary" is the second detective fiction novel by British crime novelist Agatha Christie. The book introduces the characters of Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley, two out-of work twenty-somethings in post-war London. The two agree to form "The Young Adventurers, Ltd" company, hiring themselves out with the slogan "no unreasonable offer refused". They are quickly enlisted to solve the mysterious...
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Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are Partners in Crime-or rather partners in crime solving-and must demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range of confounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leap at the chance. Their first case is a success-the triumphant...
3) N or M?
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Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, two unlikely spies, help to defend their country by trying to rout out two highly placed Fifth Columnists. When Tommy is asked by the British Intelligence Service to go and stay at the Sans Souci guest house he is astonished to see Tuppence there. The mission: to identify which of the other guests is N and which is M. - Publisher.
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Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Agatha Christie's delightful sleuthing duo, investigate the strange and troubling doings behind the scenes at a gothic British nursing home in By the Pricking of My Thumbs… When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs. Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs. Lancaster talks...
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Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings. However, when she writes down the letters, they spell out a very disturbing message: "Mary Jordan did not die naturally."...