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Partners in Crime (short story collection)

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known as "Marise" and suggests that she lunch with him at the Blitz hotel, and that they then meet Tommy later on at Headquarters. They leave and Tommy communicates with Mr Carter, whose men have been listening in to the conversation in the office. Going to the Blitz, the "Prince" and Tuppence dine, served by waiters, some of whom are policemen in disguise. They then go up in the lifts to the "Prince"'s suite, but when they fail to appear some time later, the lift man tells Tommy and Mr Carter that he took them to a different floor instead. They have been spotted going into the room of a Mrs Van Snyder of Detroit and, breaking into this room, they find the room's occupant bound and gagged. "No. 16" took Tuppence through into an adjoining room booked by an invalid Frenchman and his nurse (more agents of No. 16) and made his escape that way with Tuppence as a hostage, drugged and disguised as the invalid.
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she asks for his help with Gilda who is her sister. Some twenty years before, at the age of seventeen, she married a man against the wishes of her family, and now wants a divorce to marry Lord Leconbury. Her husband is refusing to grant her this wish, although the marriage took place so long ago that Mrs Honeycott cannot remember his name. She confirms that it was Reilly whom she saw rush upstairs and as quickly down again. Tommy asks to be shown upstairs where they find Gilda's body, her head smashed in on one side by a blunt instrument. Tuppence fetches the policeman from outside. Questioning reveals that Mrs Honeycott heard her sister entering the house at eight minutes past six as she was re-setting the main clock. This agrees with the time at which the policeman himself saw the actress enter, just before Tommy and Tuppence walked up Morgan's Avenue.
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two pieces do not match. They invite Sir Arthur back round and confront him with the evidence. Tuppence puts it to him that he too was at the Ace of Spades, dressed in a nearly identical masked costume. Hale says that he was slipped a note asking him not to approach Vere and he complied. Sir Arthur took his place and killed his own wife. The man laughs at this suggestion and Tuppence recognises it as the same laugh she heard from the booth. Marriot is hidden in their flat listening in, but Sir Arthur Merivale throws himself from a window and falls to his death before he can be taken. Marriot tells them that the motive was not jealousy but money. Vere Merivale was the one in the marriage with the money, and if she had left her husband he would have been destitute.
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command of English and cannot make their characters speak naturally. Agatha Christie is a notable exception. In this volume of stories she has conceived the ingenious idea of setting her two amateur detectives ... to work out their problems after the fashion of various heroes of detective fiction. This enables her to parody the methods of various writers ... in a way that is most enjoyable, for her literary skill is equal to the task. At the same time the stories are genuinely detective stories. They are well wrought and ingenious. The writer has the saving grace of humour and she does not let her detectives win too easily. By having two detectives who are usually alternately successful she has always a foil, less obtuse than 'my dear Watson'.
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substance. Tuppence informs Tommy of what she has seen and then ascends the ladder again, leaving him to keep a look out while she tries to free the woman. A few moments pass and Tommy is startled by a hand upon his shoulder, but it is Tuppence, having left by the front door of the house. She informs Tommy that the case is solved. Hermione Leigh Gordon is at the nursing home by choice for a quick weight loss program. The only problem is that Stavansson has returned early, just at the time she had started the treatments. Feeling foolish, the young detectives leave quickly, with Tommy commenting that there is no need to place the case in their records, in the fashion of Sherlock Holmes, as "It has absolutely
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where Tommy is immediately set upon. Rescue is instant, however, as the woman in the front of the shop is Tuppence and the two men are policemen, alerted by Tommy's note. He noticed a look of disappointment on Miss March's face when their assailant at the agency was overcome, and realised she was in the enemy's camp. He had also worked out that it was not the ambassador's bag that was important. Rather, a different bag was in the ambassador's possession for an hour or two, thereby bypassing customs for reasons of diplomatic immunity. Tommy delayed their arrival at the parlour to give Tuppence and the police time to get there first. They search the premises and find tins of bath salts which contain
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withdrew all of her money before she died. Under the guise of potential buyers, they explore the house and Monica gives them papers of her aunt's. Before they can investigate these further, they hear a crash and find a jug and basin broken in a room overhead. They quickly interview Crockett and notice that she is out of breath. They mention to her that they intend to buy the house. Monica receives a message soon afterwards from "Dr O'Neill" that his own offer has increased. It is obvious that the old maid is the one creating "disturbances" and that the "Doctor" is her nephew, trying to get the house so that he can investigate the location of the missing fortune.
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embezzler of the company was not Sessle but Hollaby and his son, they speculate that the woman was Hollaby Junior in disguise. They reconstruct the crime: Hollaby's son in disguise lures Sessle away in full view of the other two players on the course. He stabs him with a hatpin and hides the body in a hut, changing into the coat of the dead man. The two witnesses on the course see at a distance the deterioration in his game and "Sessle" then goes to his bungalow where he meets Doris Evans as arranged and goes through a series of actions which lead to the innocent woman being arrested.
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has not been seen at her lodgings. St Vincent wants them to find her. The Beresfords take on the case, which Tuppence solves with ease. Janet is a friend of hers from her wartime nursing days who was working at the shop where Tuppence makes her purchases. She asked Janet to mention the "Blunts" and then disappear. St Vincent would ask them to take on the case, for which they receive favourable publicity, and when they find Janet, her happiness will provoke St Vincent into a proposal of marriage to Janet.
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door open. Before that the two women already in the house were in the kitchen, where they could not see or hear anyone entering with a key. Just because they heard the door banging, it does not prove anything. It could just as easily have been someone leaving the house, like the policeman they saw at the gate and who carries a truncheon, which would serve as the blunt instrument needed to carry out the deed, especially as the policeman was Gilda's husband of long-ago.
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obtuse than 'my dear Watson'. "Her literary skill is equal to the task" of parodies of the style of well-known detective writers. Some of the authors parodied in the 1920s are long-forgotten, yet a review in 1990 commented that "the parodies are not sharp enough for this to matter very much" to prevent enjoyment of the stories. It also noted that the plot of one story, "The House of Lurking Death", "anticipates" a detective novel published in 1930 by Dorothy Sayers.
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Bower. The doctor's real purpose is to decoy the Beresfords away from their office that night in order that it can be searched and the latest letter retrieved. Tommy and Dymchurch make another plan to return to the office that night and catch the agents in the act. They do so but it is a trap, and Tommy is bound. Dymchurch is a foreign agent accompanied by several of his men. Bower (real spelling, Bauer) is one of his gang. He threatens Tommy with
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same restaurant. One man introduces himself as the Duke of Blairgowrie and his friend is Captain Harker. The Duke's daughter has been kidnapped "under somewhat peculiar circumstances" which mean that he cannot call in the police, and he wants Blunt to accompany them to his house immediately. Tommy agrees, but not before he has drunk a cup of coffee and given Tuppence instructions for a meal at the hotel tomorrow, at which he will dine with the
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separate stories may be taken as hilarious burlesque or parodies of current detective fiction, or they may be taken as serious attempts on the part of the author to write stories in the manner of some of the masters of the art. Taken either way they are distinctly worth while." The review concluded that "The result is the merriest collection of detective stories it has been our good fortune to encounter."
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wife, Tuppence – who follow the methods of famous detective heroes, such as Sherlock Holmes, Inspector French, Roger Sherringham, Bulldog Drummond, Father Brown and even Monsieur Poirot himself. Problem after problem comes before them for solution, and the account of their endeavours to live up to their slogan, 'Blunt's Brilliant Detectives! Any case solved in twenty-four hours!' makes delicious reading.
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outlook favoured by some well-known detective of fiction. Holmes, Thorndyke, Father Brown and even Poirot are amiably parodied, and once or twice the solution as well as the dialogue is deliberately facetious." The review ended by saying that "the author is incorrect in the explanation she gives of the printer's marks on newspapers, the distinction of dates which she makes really being one of editions".
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before she can relate what she knows they are interrupted by a big, dark, Spanish-looking man who holds them up at gunpoint. He has followed Miss March, having recognised her as a passenger on the liner, and he suspects that she is about to meddle in his plans. Before he can carry out any of his threats, he is accosted by Albert and disarmed. Tommy throws him out, deciding not to involve the police.
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as suddenly as he arrived. Tommy and Tuppence walk to Morgan's Avenue, in a thick fog. Tuppence is startled when a policeman looms up out of the mist just near to the White House. Recovering herself, she sees Reilly enter the house. The policeman confirms that the house is the residence of Mrs Honeycott, and that he saw someone who resembles Miss Glen enter there a few minutes before.
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he is master of disguise and linguistics. He is also the deviser of the "No. 16" code and they expect him to turn up at Blunt's – although he has never met the real Theodore Blunt and doesn't know that Tommy has been impersonating him. The Beresfords are given other known codes to watch out for and are asked to co-operate as much as they can with "No. 16" to help Carter get to him.
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who was killed and yet still walks his spectral beat. Miss Glen leaves hurriedly. Bulger tells them that she is engaged to marry Lord Leconbury, who meets the actress outside the door to the hotel. Bulger leaves soon afterwards and Tommy receives a note from Miss Glen asking for his help and for him to call on her at The White House, Morgan's Avenue, at 6.10 pm.
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forthcoming. They did not want to sell the house, as it provided plenty of room for them compared to their small flat. They made plans to open the house to paying guests to supplement their income. All went well for a time until they started to have strange occurrences with pictures falling off walls and crockery being smashed when no one was in the room β€” a
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she had done to the boot, Miss March later went into the empty cabin and extracted the object from the lining. It was a slip of paper with verses from the Bible; but only yesterday, by accident, the paper became wet, revealing hidden writing that looks like the plans of a harbour. The paper is back at her place of work – a beauty parlour in
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other guest was Mr Rennie, paying court to Miss Kingston Bruce. Her father does not like him as he is a socialist. No one has been allowed to leave the house since the pearl was discovered to be missing, except for the daughter when she went to the Blunts. They search the house as part of their investigations.
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Mr Carter congratulates the Beresfords on their successes at the agency, but he gives them a warning that Moscow has become suspicious of the failure to hear from their agents, and that they have despatched a man to investigate. The agent is known to them, having caused them problems in the past, but
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Ralph Westerham, also from the US – but quickly returned by that man's valet. The puzzle is that Mr Wilmott met Mr Westerham yesterday and the Senator denied the mistake, stating that he did not have such an article amongst his luggage during the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Mr Wilmott knows the
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on a Wednesday and then decided to play a few more holes before it became dark. As they approached the tee on the seventh hole, Hollaby saw Sessle talking to a mysterious woman in a brown coat. They went off, talking, down a side path, and after a moment Sessle reappeared. Something had upset him for
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Tommy and Tuppence have had a setback, failing to solve their latest case involving a stolen pearl necklace. Instead, the local police inspector apprehended the culprit. Having withdrawn to lick their wounds with cocktails in a hotel, they meet an old acquaintance, Mervyn Estcourt, known as "Bulger",
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At the Blitz, they are soon joined by two men who have been observing the pair and who say that Blunt has been pointed out to them, although one of them admits he did not know Theodore Blunt was blind. They have been to the office and learned they were at lunch, and by coincidence have stopped at the
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where it is fashionable to go to after events like the Three Arts Ball. Curious about "Necessary to finesse the King" and feeling that they need to hone their detective skills, she decides that she and Tommy will go the ball in costume to investigate. They will act as the detectives Tommy McCarty and
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After a week of refusing divorce cases, which Tuppence finds distasteful, they receive a visit from Lawrence St Vincent. He is the nephew of, and heir to, the Earl of Cheriton. He has fallen for a young woman called Janet who works in a hat shop in Brooks Street. She has disappeared from the shop and
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on the bed, Tommy finds Tuppence – he realised that there wasn't enough time to bind and gag Mrs Van Snyder, drug Tuppence, and disguise her as a Frenchman. Therefore, she must still have been in the room and, remembering the bolster as a hiding place from childhood games, saw that as the only place
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Preparing to take a taxi, Tommy notices that the cab has just refused a fare further down the road and, suspicious that they are being watched, insists on walking to Bond Street. Once there, they pass through the front of the shop, past a woman customer and two waiting men, and go into a back office
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Tommy decides that their next line of action is to advertise for Miss O'Hara to come forward, even though they risk putting her on her guard if she was involved in tampering with the kit bag. Two days later, Albert shows into Tommy's office a Miss Cicely March who is answering the advertisement, but
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has visited and offered to buy the house from them to further his investigations. Monica, however, is certain that he is the younger man (now in disguise) who previously made them an offer for the house. The only other resident in the house now is Crockett, an elderly maid of Monica's aunt who has a
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and returned to London the next morning. Armed with a photograph of Miss Drake and the knowledge of the methods of Inspector French, Tommy and Tuppence interview Mr le Marchant who confirms that he was with the young lady for part of the evening in question. He states that Miss Drake made an oblique
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in favour of Lois. Three weeks earlier, when she turned 21, Lois made a will leaving her money to Dennis. He lives at the Grange with her, as does Miss Logan, an old lady who is a cousin of Dennis and a former companion to Lady Radclyffe. Mary Chilcott, an old schoolfriend of Lois, is also living at
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Miss Hargreaves is a rich heiress. She inherited her fortune from her aunt, the wealthy widow Lady Radclyffe. Lady Radclyffe had invited Lois to live with her, and she always made it clear to Lois that she intended to leave the bulk of her estate to Dennis Radclyffe, her late husband's nephew. After
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poisoning and this is the third occurrence in the area of such a gift and its after-effects. What perturbs Miss Hargreaves is that the paper in which the chocolates were wrapped was re-used from a previous parcel sent to the Grange, evidenced by a small doodle of three intertwined fish that she drew
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The next day, Reilly is arrested and Tommy and Tuppence meet with his solicitor, Mr Marvell. Reilly insists that the woman was dead when he entered her room. That would mean either Ellen or Mrs Honeycott killed her. Tommy suddenly realises no one inside the house saw Gilda enter, they only heard the
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to reveal the whereabouts of the blue letter. Tommy tells them that Tuppence has it, and writes a letter summoning her to the office; but he signs this "Francis" and shows them the General's wedding present as proof that this is his real name and not "Theodore Blunt". Tuppence arrives and alerted by
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Tommy returns with Inspector Marriot of Scotland Yard. They go straight back to the bathroom and cut the cake of soap in half. Inside it is the pearl. The reason Elise could not open the door was that she had soap on her hands after depositing the pearl there. Tommy's photographs included one of the
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Tommy sorts out a pile of famous detective stories, and he thinks it would be a good idea to base their techniques on the styles of their fictional counterparts. He has bought a good camera for taking photographs of footprints and "all that sort of thing". The next client is a young woman named Miss
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Tommy and Tuppence travel to the "Red House" and begin their investigations, harbouring suspicions that the old lady had hidden money in the building that would account for the remainder of her fortune being missing. Tommy makes a visit to the local bank and finds out from the manager that the aunt
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break an alibi she has set up for herself. She has agreed that if he wins he can ask her for anything he likes, and it is his intention to ask her for her hand in marriage. Knowing full well that he is not known for his intelligence, Montgomery Jones asks the Beresfords to take on the task for him.
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Tommy and Tuppence's latest client is a personable, rich, but slightly dense young man called Mr Montgomery Jones. He has met an Australian woman called Una Drake with whom he has fallen violently in love. Talking of their mutual love of detective stories, she has made a bet with him that he cannot
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paste in sandwiches eaten by the three but not by Mary Chilcott, who is unaffected. They meet Dr Burton who is looking after the patients and who tells them that Dennis died early that morning. The doctor has not yet identified the poison, but it was not arsenic. They learn that Dennis was out when
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The Beresfords receive a professional visit from a smartly dressed young woman, Lois Hargreaves of Thurnly Grange, her house in the country. One week before, her household received a box of chocolates anonymously through the post. Not liking chocolates, she did not eat any, and consequently she was
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circles. He and his French wife seem to have a lot of money. Although it could be a coincidence, a large number of the notes have come from a gambling club used by the Laidlaws and this, together with the racing, could be an ideal way of distributing the forgeries. Another friend of the Laidlaws is
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A shabbily dressed and aggressive young man bursts into the hotel. Sitting near Tommy and Tuppence, he tells them that his name is James Reilly, and he is a pacifist poet enamoured of Gilda. She once cared for him, but does so no longer since her engagement to Lord Leconbury. Still angry, he leaves
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Marriot returns to the Beresford's with photographs of the fragment and the section of the costume it came from; he has the last link to convict Hale but Tuppence senses that he is far from satisfied with this conclusion to the case. After he leaves, she notices that the dots in the masthead of the
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The collection was well received on publication, with the "merriest collection", with amiable parodies, to one reviewer who was less impressed, saying the stories were "entertaining enough". One noted that "By having two detectives who are usually alternately successful she has always a foil, less
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This delightfully witty book will come as a pleasant surprise to all admirers of these ingenious detective thrillers for which Agatha Christie is famous. It tells the story of the amazing adventures of two amateur detectives – Tommy, a remarkable young man of thirty-two, and his equally remarkable
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s issue of 17 October 1929 seemed to recognise the tongue-in-cheek nature of the work when it stated that "Mrs Christie has given an amusing twist to the episodes by suggesting that the two partners in "Blunt's Brilliant Detectives" assume on each occasion the method, the manner of speech, and the
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The two go back to the agency where they find that too many leaves have been torn from a calendar so that it now shows the date as Sunday the sixteenth, which is six days hence. Albert tells them that could only have been done by a client who waited for some time for them that morning – a hospital
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Alone with Tommy, Miss March tells a tale of having also seen the incident of Miss O'Hara on the liner: The supposedly ill woman, when she thought she was alone and unobserved, went into Mr Wilmott's cabin and put something into the lining of a boot through a slit which she cut. Worried about what
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through the heart. The police found forensic evidence on the man that led them to trace a young woman called Doris Evans. She was arrested and told a story of meeting Sessle at a cinema. He invited her to his bungalow on a day when, as she learned later, his wife and servants would be away. On the
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About to enter the house, they hear a cry and Reilly runs out, leaving what looks like red paint from his hand on a gatepost as he does so. The two enter the house and meet Ellen, the maid, who is indignant about the visit by Reilly. Then they meet Mrs Honeycott. Mistaking Tommy for a real priest,
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disguise and Tommy ambiguously confirms his detective credentials. The directions from Bulger as to the way back to the station include a walk down Morgan's Avenue. Miss Glen is startled by this advice and Bulger laughs at her belief that the road in question is haunted by the ghost of a policeman
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It is a trap and the "Duke" is connected with the Russian letters. He prods a pistol at Tommy and takes him to a hideout where he is bound to a chair while the "Duke" gloats over him. He tells Tommy that the floor of the room they are in is metal and now electrified. He is going to make Tommy walk
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near the village. Investigating this lead, Tuppence inquires at the nursing home and is told they do not have a patient named Mrs Leigh Gordon. Next, Tommy poses as a journalist seeking an interview with Dr Horriston, but he too is turned away. Next, the sleuths overhear a conversation which sends
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Bower leaves, and his club foot reminds Tuppence of the brothers Okewood. Tommy resolves to be Desmond while she is Francis. Their next visitor is Detective Inspector Dymchurch from Scotland Yard, a colleague of Marriot, who understands the need to keep a watch on the blue letters and is following
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The Beresfords' old friend Mr Carter, from a government intelligence agency, arrives bearing a proposition for the adventurous duo. They are to take over 'the International Detective Agency', a recently cleaned-out spy stronghold, and pose as the owners so as to intercept any enemy messages coming
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Tommy is distraught at the thought of what might be happening to Tuppence. Albert tries to cheer him up, reminding him of Tuppence's resourcefulness. In talking to Albert, Tommy is struck by an idea and races back to the Blitz where he and one of Carter's men return to Mrs Van Snyder's room. They
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committed the crime and tried to frame a woman. Tommy soon remembers that near the seventh hole on the course is a small hut, and the two talk about the possibility that the woman in brown could have been a man in disguise. This leads them to wonder which man. Linked to Tuppence's theory that the
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of 22 September 1929 began by observing "To describe adequately such a book as this is no easy matter. It is a group of short detective stories within a detective novel, for there is a rather sketchy, but nonetheless absorbing plot which holds the separate tales together. The entire book and the
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After a short while, another client is shown in – a fair, bearded man who goes by the name of Prince Vladiroffsky, and who starts to use the codes communicated to them by Mr Carter. Upon being questioned, the Beresfords tell him that treachery is afoot. "No. 16" assumes that Tuppence is an agent
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It is just before Christmas when a young lady called Monica Deane calls at Blunt's agency. She and her impoverished, widowed, invalid mother inherited a house from a well-off sister of her father's. They expected to inherit some money to go with the house but, to their surprise, there was little
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Working all evening on puzzling out the problem, the Beresfords confess that they are stumped. Sleeping on the problem, the next morning Tuppence awakes to a flash on inspiration and sends off a cable to test her idea. Later that day she returns to their office with the solution – Una has a twin
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where they find plenty of evidence that Miss Drake was in the hotel throughout the night and that she traveled to the resort when she was in London. Back in London, they finally question some people who saw Una at the Savoy, and also her flatmate and charwoman, who both attest that she spent the
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and, from the entry in Edward Logan's book, deduce that Miss Logan is the murderer. The pinpricks on her arm are from injections of small amounts of the poison she has been giving herself to build up immunity. As next of kin to Dennis, she would inherit once Lois, then Dennis, died. The near-mad
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game after dinner, the clasp of Mrs Betts' pearl pendant necklace broke. She laid it down on a small table and forgot to take it upstairs. The next morning, the necklace was still there but the pearl itself had gone. Aside from the Kingston Bruces, the Betts, Lady Laura, and St Vincent, the only
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Detective fiction, like mathematics, tends to develop a language of its own which to the uninitiated can be a little troublesome. It is not so much a matter of 'blue-nosed automatics' and other jargon of the craft of detective fiction; the trouble is that many of the writers seem to have little
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makes. The two are soon ensconced in the Laidlaw's circle of friends. As well as the Laidlaws themselves, Mrs Laidlaw's French father, M. Heroulade, is an object of suspicion. They observe how notes are passed by the Laidlaws to lay their bets. Among each wad of notes there are some forgeries.
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Tommy receives a phone call from Mr Carter warning him and Tuppence that the people connected with the Russian letters on blue paper have become aware that they have taken Blunt's place, and to expect developments any time soon. Tommy suggests Tuppence waits in the safety of their home but she
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and a man outfitted as the gentleman dressed in newspaper. After a while, they hear a cry from the woman followed by the man laughing and then see him leaving. After a few minutes, suspicious, Tuppence makes Tommy follow her into the booth and they find the woman stabbed through the heart. She
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After dark, the two return to the house. Tuppence ascends a ladder to a second floor window, where she sees a woman strapped to the bed and writhing in pain. She recognises the woman as Mrs Leigh Gordon. While Tuppence is watching, a nurse enters the room and injects the woman with an unknown
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which reads, "I should go three hearts. 12 tricks. Ace of Spades. Necessary to finesse the King." She deduces that this refers to the Three Arts Ball the next evening, "12 tricks" means twelve o'clock midnight and the "Ace of Spades" refers to a somewhat decadent nightclub-cum-eating place in
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Tommy uses his new camera whilst Tuppence tactfully questions the servants. They overhear a scrap of conversation between Mrs Kingston Bruce and her daughter about someone hiding a teaspoon in their muff. Later on, Tuppence ferrets out of Lady Laura's French maid, Elise, that her employer is
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where she "found" five hundred pounds. Tommy takes Ryder to the district and the house they visited earlier. As the row of terraced dwellings look identical, Tommy chalks a small cross at the base of the back door before they enter. Ryder thinks he hears someone coming and goes back out to
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his game fell apart and two holes later Sessle gave up and walked off alone, presumably to his bungalow home. The existence of the woman in brown, Sessle's temporary departure with her, and his subsequent poor game were witnessed by two other members who were behind them on the course.
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The next night Tommy is at the gambling club, Mrs Laidlaw passes him small notes to exchange for one of a higher denomination. Among them are several forgeries. His suspicions are directed to M. Heroulade, but his attention is caught when he leaves the club and finds Hank Ryder
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The Beresfords travel to Wimbledon and meet Colonel Kingston Bruce. He proudly tells them that Lady Laura Barton, daughter of the late Earl of Carroway, is staying with them together with an American couple, Mr and Mrs Hamilton Betts, who wanted to meet a titled lady. During a
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Hannah hears this accusation and then bursts into Miss Logan's room and attacks her, starting a fire in the process. Tommy stifles the flames but the shock of this event causes Miss Logan to die. Dr Burton confirms that the cocktail glass contained traces of ricin.
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across the floor, even though he is blind. If he steps on a contact point, he will die. He hands him his white cane and unties him and the "game" is about to commence. Tommy coolly takes out a cigarette and match but he has anticipated the trap and instead lights a
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at the same time, which he considers strange since a friend of his was at the Castle Hotel and did indeed think he saw her there. The two investigate the Soho restaurant (where a positive identification of the young woman is not forthcoming). They travel to
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Ryder captures Tommy and tells him that he marked every door with a cross. Ryder's satisfaction is cut short when Marriot and the police burst into the room and arrest the gang. Tommy tells Ryder that when he was chalking the door, he emptied a bottle of
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shop where he decides to mimic the tastes and habits of "The Old Man in the Corner" with Tuppence playing the part of Polly Burton. To test his abilities as this detective, he has brought along a cutting from a newspaper on the recent case known as the
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maid and she handled one of the glass slides, leaving her fingerprints. Scotland Yard has identified her from their records as a missing criminal and arrested her. Being the maid of a lady suspected of kleptomania was the best cover she could have had.
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and speak to Richards, his valet, who confirms the basics of the tale told by the Ambassador. Just before the other valet called for the bag, he had started to unpack it and had glimpsed its contents. It contained boots and toilet things, and a tin of
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Prudence ("Tuppence") Beresford, who is happily married to Tommy for six years, is bored with life. She flippantly discusses what exciting things she would wish to happen to her. Their conversation is interrupted by the arrival of Mr Carter (see
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magazine. For publication in book form, Christie rearranged the story order and changed the framing device of several of the chapters to make the flow of the book easier. The original order and publication details of the stories are as follows:
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Marguerite Laidlaw is a striking woman and has a string of admirers. Among them is a visiting wealthy American called Hank Ryder who tells Tommy that she is in fear of her husband. Ryder also notices the forged notes, as his bank rejected them.
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The Beresfords wonder how to convince the police of the plausibility of their theory. Inspector Marriot sits at the next table, listening intently to them. He was suspicious of the Hollabys and promises to set enquiries in motion.
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each in a different direction. Tommy leaves Tuppence to keep watch while he goes to make some phone calls in the village. Upon his return he shares the news that Dr Horriston has a reputation as "a most unscrupulous quack..."
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described this as: "Tommy and Tuppence in a series of short stories which parody detective writers and their methods. Many of these are long forgotten, but the parodies are not sharp enough for this to matter very much.
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day in question, the man met her as he arrived home from the golf course. He behaved strangely and then, suggesting a stroll, he took her to the golf course. On the seventh tee he suddenly became deranged and produced a
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sister who, the cable to Australia has confirmed, arrived in England the day before the events in question. The fun-loving sisters thought the stunt would be an amusing joke to play on Montgomery Jones.
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and the way the two communicated with each other using this device. Before she died, Vere tore off a piece of Bingo's newspaper costume and the police intend to match this up with the discarded costume.
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The next day, Tommy and Tuppence plan to travel down to the Grange; before leaving, they read the news that Lois is dead, killed by a poison which also affected Dennis and Miss Logan. The source is
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At the Ace of Spades, the Beresfords sit in a private booth and peer through the door at the various other costumed and masked patrons. The booth next door is soon taken by a woman dressed as
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through. In the meantime Tommy and Tuppence can take on cases as this detective agency, an opportunity that delights the young couple. They employ Albert, a young man also introduced in
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The Blunt's agency is visited by Randolph Wilmott, the United States Ambassador to Great Britain. He arrived back from a trip to his home country a week ago. Soon after his return, his
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who is in the company of the famous actress Gilda Glen. She is renowned for her beauty and rumoured to be notable for her lack of intelligence. Miss Glen seems puzzled by Tommy's
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issue of 10 October 1929 gave the book a review of a couple of lines which concluded that the stories were "not quite up to her level, although they are entertaining enough".
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with her parents, and last night one of their guests lost a valuable pink pearl. The Blunts have been recommended to them by Lawrence St Vincent, who was one of the guests.
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Blunt's detective agency is doing well. Tommy considers they may need a larger office, in part to accommodate the shelf-space needed to store the classics books by
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on the ground, thus attracting the neighbourhood cats to the smell. This was his pre-arranged sign to Albert who, on his orders, followed them to Whitechapel.
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on 10 December 1924. This formed the basis for chapter 23 of the book which uses the same chapter title and was also the final story Christie ever wrote for
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Over their table, Tuppence counters that Doris did not murder the man, as very few women nowadays use hatpins. That suggests that a man not conversant with
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The International Detective Agency receives a visit from Gabriel Stavansson, the famous explorer, who has returned early from a two-year expedition to the
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where she is the US agent for preparations used in beauty treatments. Tommy leaves a note for Tuppence, and he and Miss March go to her beauty parlour.
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informed him that his kit bag, which carried his initials, had been mistakenly taken by another passenger on board the liner with the same initials –
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the false name in the note, she has brought Inspector Marriot with her and several armed policemen. "Dymchurch" and his co-conspirators are arrested.
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Stavansson explains that before he went on the expedition, he became engaged to the Hon Mrs Hermione Leigh Gordon, whose first husband was killed in
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Tommy's alias is Mr Blunt, while Tuppence is his confidential secretary, Miss Robinson. The porter from their flat, Albert is their office worker.
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Tommy and Tuppence make their plans to catch the head of the forgers, or 'The Crackler' as Tommy calls him, named after the sound that a rustled
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was at 10:30 pm from New York City. There are differing accounts of who starred in the adaptation. Peter Haining states that the stars were
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if they are to copy his methods of detection. Inspector Marriot calls on the two sleuths with his mission for them: A large number of well-
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wire he is carrying. The flare blinds the "Duke" who lowers his pistol and then he finds himself at the point of Tommy's cane, which is a
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Tuppence quickly recovers and the two decide to give up the agency, after Tuppence tells a delighted Tommy that she is expecting a baby.
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investigate. Tommy goes further into the house and finds the counterfeiting gang and The Crackler himself – Hank Ryder.
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on 29 October 1924. This formed the basis for chapters 15 and 16 of the book which use the slightly amended title of
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the Grange. The servants are a cook, a kitchenmaid, a parlourmaid called Esther, and an elderly maid called Hannah.
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of the newspaper indicate the different days on which the paper was produced, while his wife spots an advert in the
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stories were not parodied, although the character and the situations that he encountered were briefly mentioned in
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on 22 October 1924. This formed the basis for chapters 5 and 6 of the book which use the slightly amended title of
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on all concerned. She has an old book on poisons and medicines by Edward Logan, Miss Logan's father, a pioneer of
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on 3 December 1924. This formed the basis for chapters 11 and 12 of the book which uses the same chapter title.
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on 5 November 1924. This formed the basis for chapters 17 and 18 of the book which use the same chapter title.
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on 1 October 1924. This formed the basis for chapters 3 and 4 of the book which uses the same chapter title.
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was not an adaptation of this short story collection, instead being an adaptation of two Christie novels:
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on 26 November 1924. This formed the basis for chapter 10 of the book which uses the same chapter title.
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on 12 November 1924. This formed the basis for chapter 22 of the book which uses the shortened title of
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on 15 October 1924. This formed the basis for chapter 9 of the book which uses the same chapter title.
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matter is a trivial one, but his curiosity has been piqued and he wishes the agency to investigate.
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the sandwiches were eaten for tea. Tuppence finds that he was seen by one of the maids to drink a
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on 16 September of the same year. The US edition retailed at $ 2.00 and the UK edition at seven
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and the detective brothers Francis and Desmond Okewood. One of Williams' books in particular –
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stamp with a "16" written underneath. He asks for such letters to be sent to him immediately.
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in the street outside. In his slurred ramblings he tells Tommy how Mrs Laidlaw took him on a
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as Albert. It was first broadcast in the UK between 16 October 1983 and 14 January 1984.
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Tommy and Tuppence look over the papers and realise that one of them contains a puzzle
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In speaking with everyone in the house, they meet Hannah, who quotes dark lines from
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refuses. Tommy suggests an exercise in following the methods of the blind detective
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restaurant, saw a West End show, and then had supper with a Mr le Marchant at the
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on 24 September 1924. This formed the basis for chapters 1 and 2 of the book –
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from Monday, 13 April to Monday, 13 July 1953. The half-hour episodes starred
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seems to be the starting point in England, and some have come from across the
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in December 1923. This formed the basis for chapters 20 and 21 of the book –
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as Tuppence, taking advantage of the actors' then-current starring roles in
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The next morning, Sessle was found dead on the seventh tee, stabbed with a
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above) and Marriot thinks he could introduce the Beresfords into the set.
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aired as the twelfth episode in the twenty-six episode anthology series
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she could be. He also unmasks "No. 16" – disguised as Mrs Van Snyder.
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in December 1928. This formed the basis for chapter 19 of the book.
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are in circulation and he wants them to track down the source. The
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of the first UK edition (which is carried on both the back of the
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The alibi is that on the previous Tuesday Miss Drake dined at a
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find the lady still there, recovering on the bed. Under the
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on it. The poisoner is therefore someone in her own home.
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as Tommy but other sources state that the stars were
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a quarrel with the young man she quietly changed her
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earlier that day) and he entrusts his case to them.
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The story was illustrated by Arthur Ferrier. 1321:(London), 16 September 1929, Hardcover, 256 pp 2039: 1837: 1835: 1833: 1331:1943, Dodd Mead and Company, (As part of the 8: 28: 1191:The adaptation was written and directed by 906:(1918) – is named by Tuppence in the story. 3236:Short story collections by Agatha Christie 2046: 2032: 2024: 329:who states that he is Dr Charles Bower of 34: 27: 2836:Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories 1936:. TV.com. 7 December 1950. Archived from 1895:. Virgin Publications. pp. 151–152. 1779: 1777: 1686:Detective Fiction – the collector's guide 1608:After a gap of four years a final story, 1404:in 1944 along with other selections from 1446:The Clergyman's Daughter / The Red House 945:The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax 860:The stories and their detective parodies 763:young nephew of whom she is very proud. 749:The Clergyman's Daughter / The Red House 748: 441:, and another place of the same name in 2850:While the Light Lasts and Other Stories 1998:at the official Agatha Christie website 1676: 2801:The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding 1665:The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger 1619:Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News 1616:, the annual Christmas special of the 1516:The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger 1171:). The 30-minute live transmission on 1038:The Clergyman's Daughter/The Red House 896:The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger 317:The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger 1965:"Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime" 1893:Agatha Christie – Murder in Four Acts 1466:which appeared under the subtitle of 1288:appeared in all episodes as Albert. 1060:– This story parodies Christie's own 958:'s stories about the blind detective 607:, played a full round of golf on the 7: 2544:The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side 1707: 1705: 1646:and opposite the title page) reads: 1546:The Matter of the Ambassador's Boots 1361:, Paperback (Great Pan G526), 203 pp 1328:(New York), Abridged edition, 126 pp 912:– This two part story is a spoof of 591:Tommy takes Tuppence to lunch at an 224:, as their assistant at the agency. 3105:Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures 2003:The Case of the Missing Lady (1950) 1917:The Case of the Missing Lady (1950) 1596:: First published in issue 1663 of 1586:: First published in issue 1662 of 1576:: First published in issue 1661 of 1562:: First published in issue 1660 of 1548:: First published in issue 1659 of 1538:: First published in issue 1658 of 1524:: First published in issue 1657 of 1510:: First published in issue 1656 of 1500:: First published in issue 1655 of 1486:: First published in issue 1654 of 1476:: First published in issue 1653 of 1454:: First published in issue 1652 of 1396:Chapters from the book appeared in 1201:Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime 1075:Literary significance and reception 263:wife. Each such letter will have a 176:in the US in 1929 and in the UK by 3074:Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks 2787:Three Blind Mice and Other Stories 1460:A Fairy in the Flat / A Pot of Tea 1438:: First published in issue 226 of 1145:Film, TV or theatrical adaptations 194:below) and feature her detectives 21:Partners in Crime (disambiguation) 14: 2815:The Golden Ball and Other Stories 1934:"The Disappearance Of Mrs Gordan" 1872:. Project Gutenberg. 9 March 2005 1655:The blurb was incorrect in that " 1508:The Case of the Sinister Stranger 3205: 3204: 1770:. 22 September 1929. p. 38. 1684:Cooper, John; Pyke, B A (1994). 1350:1958, Fontana Books (Imprint of 1291:Aside from a 1948 adaptation of 1266:'s London, Midland and Scottish 866:A Fairy in the Flat/A Pot of Tea 123:Print (hardback & paperback) 3137:Agatha and the Midnight Murders 2794:The Under Dog and Other Stories 2180:The Mysterious Affair at Styles 1826:. 16 September 1929. p. 2. 1788:. 17 October 1929. p. 824. 1169:The Disappearance of Mrs Gordan 198:Beresford, first introduced in 3129:Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar 3121:Agatha and the Truth of Murder 1963:Grost, Michael (August 2004). 1768:The New York Times Book Review 1748:The English Catalogue of Books 1594:The Man who was Number Sixteen 1560:The Affair of the Forged Notes 1398:Agatha Christie's Crime Reader 1093:The New York Times Book Review 1079:The review of the book in the 992:– The tale is in the style of 916:, with parallels to the story 760:Society for Psychical Research 259:merchant anxious to trace his 131:277 (first edition, hardcover) 1: 3192:Agatha Christie Award (Japan) 3067:The Mousetrap and Other Plays 2229:The Mystery of the Blue Train 1786:The Times Literary Supplement 1368:(New York), Paperback, 224 pp 288:Kingston Bruce. She lives in 3231:1929 short story collections 2808:Double Sin and Other Stories 2586:By the Pricking of My Thumbs 2271:Murder on the Orient Express 2097:Tommy and Tuppence Beresford 1498:The Case of the Missing Lady 1474:The Affair of the Pink Pearl 1416:First publication of stories 1155:The Case of the Missing Lady 1131:anticipates the solution of 934:– This story references Sir 932:The Case of the Missing Lady 882:The Affair of the Pink Pearl 401:The Case of the Missing Lady 283:The Affair of the Pink Pearl 191:First publication of stories 3256:William Collins, Sons books 2910:Witness for the Prosecution 2215:The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 3272: 3246:Dodd, Mead & Co. books 3039:Come, Tell Me How You Live 2341:Hercule Poirot's Christmas 2278:Why Didn't They Ask Evans? 2243:The Murder at the Vicarage 2117:Chief Inspector James Japp 2102:Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent 1737:, 15 September 1929 (p. 8) 1536:The House of Lurking Death 1129:The House of Lurking Death 1105:of 16 September 1929 said, 1006:The House of Lurking Death 920:(1917) and the detectives 652:The House of Lurking Death 570:which included a visit to 546:Lawrence St Vincent (from 18: 3200: 2676:The Rose and the Yew Tree 2201:The Man in the Brown Suit 2061: 1258:was adapted as a 13-part 1206:London Weekend Television 1164:The Nash Airflyte Theater 1082:Times Literary Supplement 1012:and his French detective 1008:– Recreates the style of 999:The Old Man in the Corner 904:The Man with the Clubfoot 33: 3113:The Unicorn and the Wasp 3091:Agatha Christie Memorial 2875:And Then There Were None 2752:Parker Pyne Investigates 2369:One, Two, Buckle My Shoe 2355:And Then There Were None 2014:Partners in Crime (1983) 1842:Barnard, Robert (1990). 1712:Marcum, J S (May 2007). 1319:William Collins and Sons 477:French Prefect of Police 3007:Butter in a Lordly Dish 2773:The Labours of Hercules 2683:A Daughter's a Daughter 2474:They Do It with Mirrors 2390:The Body in the Library 2236:The Seven Dials Mystery 2194:The Murder on the Links 2112:Captain Arthur Hastings 1891:Haining, Peter (1990). 1530:The Sunningdale Mystery 1522:The Sunninghall Mystery 1410:The Mysterious Mr. Quin 1344:The Mysterious Mr. Quin 1032:Inspector Joseph French 990:The Sunningdale Mystery 871:Malcolm Sage, detective 731:comment about being in 587:The Sunningdale Mystery 458:distinctive features." 141:The Seven Dials Mystery 2882:Appointment with Death 2745:The Listerdale Mystery 2724:The Mysterious Mr Quin 2614:Elephants Can Remember 2600:Passenger to Frankfurt 2418:Death Comes as the End 2334:Appointment with Death 2208:The Secret of Chimneys 1994:6 January 2013 at the 1653: 1554:The Ambassador's Boots 1420:All of the stories in 1310: 1112: 1058:The Man Who Was No. 16 1052:The Ambassador's Boots 924:(an ex-policeman) and 876:Herbert George Jenkins 831:The Man Who Was No. 16 782:The Ambassador's Boots 741:night in her own bed. 531:forged one-pound notes 174:Dodd, Mead and Company 154:The Mysterious Mr Quin 16:Short story collection 2843:The Harlequin Tea Set 2731:The Thirteen Problems 2530:Cat Among the Pigeons 2453:A Murder Is Announced 2306:Murder in Mesopotamia 2250:The Sittaford Mystery 2092:Superintendent Battle 1648: 1610:The Unbreakable Alibi 1308: 1107: 1020:The Unbreakable Alibi 986:'s style of plotting. 781: 710:The Unbreakable Alibi 605:Sunningdale Golf Club 178:William Collins, Sons 172:, first published by 2938:The Unexpected Guest 2822:Poirot's Early Cases 2669:Absent in the Spring 2516:4.50 from Paddington 2502:Hickory Dickory Dock 2488:A Pocket Full of Rye 2460:They Came to Baghdad 2187:The Secret Adversary 2107:Sir Henry Clithering 1402:Cleveland Publishing 1375:Edition, Hardcover, 1354:), Paperback, 189 pp 1272:Richard Attenborough 1236:The Secret Adversary 1024:Freeman Wills Crofts 461: 252:The Secret Adversary 222:The Secret Adversary 201:The Secret Adversary 19:For other uses, see 3046:Star Over Bethlehem 2766:The Regatta Mystery 2710:Poirot Investigates 2662:Unfinished Portrait 2558:A Caribbean Mystery 2523:Ordeal by Innocence 2495:Destination Unknown 2292:Death in the Clouds 1940:on 11 February 2009 1584:The Man in the Mist 1406:Poirot Investigates 1338:Poirot Investigates 1301:Publication history 966:The Man in the Mist 918:The Clue in the Air 495:The Man in the Mist 244:A Fairy in the Flat 231:and Christie's own 30: 3251:Tommy and Tuppence 3032:The Road of Dreams 2945:Go Back for Murder 2889:Murder on the Nile 2759:Murder in the Mews 2738:The Hound of Death 2565:At Bertram's Hotel 2467:Mrs McGinty's Dead 2439:Taken at the Flood 2376:Evil Under the Sun 2313:Cards on the Table 2299:The A.B.C. 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Index

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Agatha Christie
Detective fiction
Short stories
Dodd, Mead
Collins
The Seven Dials Mystery
The Mysterious Mr Quin
Agatha Christie
Dodd, Mead and Company
William Collins, Sons
shillings
sixpence
First publication of stories
Tommy and Tuppence
The Secret Adversary
Sherlock Holmes
Hercule Poirot
The Secret Adversary
ham
refugee
Russian
Wimbledon
bridge
kleptomaniac
First World War
club foot
Hampstead
alkaloids

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