- English Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Mystery, Tuppence Beresford (Fictitious character)
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.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1929
- Pages
- 225
- Publisher
- Dell Pub. Co., London, Signet
- Editions
- 83
- Language
- Polish, Spanish, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780001046641
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- English Detective and mystery stories
- Fiction
- Mystery
- Tuppence Beresford (Fictitious character)
- Tommy Beresford (Fictitious character)
- Private investigators
- Large type books
- English literature
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- England, fiction
- Beresford, tommy (fictitious character), fiction
- Beresford, tuppence (fictitious character), fiction
“Mrs. Thomas Beresford shifted her position on the divan and looked gloomily out of the window of the flat.”
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her hus
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