The Book Cipher: Tuppence finds one that starts the mystery off in Postern of Fate.Bluff the Eavesdropper: Jane wails in French to convince her kidnappers she's really lost her memory in The Secret Adversary.Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word: Tuppence improvises something similar to this to get money from Whittington in The Secret Adversary.And again after they adopt Betty following the events of N or M? Babies Ever After: After Partners In Crime.Almost-Dead Guy: Referenced at the beginning of Partners in Crime, when Tuppence wishes one would stagger through the door so she could have a mystery to solve.Tommy asks her if he also wears chaps and a ten-gallon hat. Americans Are Cowboys: Some Conversational Troping between Tommy and Tuppence in Partners in Crime, where Tuppence wants to meet a handsome and rugged American man who can survive in the wild and rope a steer.The following tropes are common to many or all entries in the Tommy and Tuppence franchise.įor tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages. The series was released in the United States as part of the PBS anthology series Mystery! Other various live-action adaptions have been done as part of other Agatha Christie-based series such as Marple. There was a live-action adaptation revolving around Tommy and Tuppence produced by London Weekend Television in 1983 of The Secret Adversary and several stories from Partners in Crime. Partners in Crime (short story collection) (1929).Interestingly, the dedications of two Tommy and Tuppence books ( The Secret Adversary and By the Pricking of My Thumbs) are the only times Christie ever dedicated a book directly to her readers.
Postern is also notable as the final novel Christie ever wrote, though not published. From there, they were revisited by Christie from time to time, and again, unlike Poirot and Marple, aged in real-time as Christie did, starting out as energetic twenty-somethings in The Secret Adversary and ending up as retired grandparents in their twilight years in Postern of Fate. Jobless and penniless, they place an ad in the paper marketing themselves as adventurers, leading to an encounter that starts their career as spies for an unnamed British intelligence agency. They're far less famous than their mystery-solving counterparts Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.Īppearing in Christie's second novel, The Secret Adversary, Thomas Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley started out as friends in post- World War I Britain. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are the protagonists of a series of novels and short stories by Agatha Christie, and mark the few ventures that Christie made into espionage tales rather than the whodunits she's known for.
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