"Childhood friends Thomas Beresford, 'Tommy' and Prudence Cowley, 'Tuppence', cross paths after the Great War. Desperate for cash, they set themselves up as "two young adventurers for hire" and launch a series of thrilling escapades. In this, Agatha Christie's second published my...
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Dahm, Kristi
Dame Christie
"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 recovery of a pink pearl. Other cases soon follow-a stabbing on Sunningdale...
When Tommy and Tuppence Beresford move to a quiet English village, they are looking forward to a peaceful retirement. But, as they soon discover, their rambling old house holds dark secrets. Who is Mary Jordan? And why has someone left a code message in an old book about her 'unn...
Stylish crime-solving couple Tommy and Tuppence Beresford ply their trade as proprietors of Blunt's Detective Agency.
The girl in the photograph has been missing for five years. Neither her body nor the secret documents she was carrying have ever been found. Now, post-war England's economic recovery depends on finding her and getting the papers back. But the two young Brits working undercover fo...
Stylish crime-solving couple Tommy and Tuppence Beresford ply their trade as proprietors of Blunt's Detective Agency.
From the mind of mystery maven Agatha Christie comes what is considered to be the original crime-solving couple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Redefining the conventions of the mystery genre, providing a prototype for many male/female detective teams that followed.
Spring 1940: As World War II heats up in England, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are enlisted in the cause, independently taking on assumed identities to uncover Nazi informers who imperil the security of their homeland. They set an elaborate trap to expose the traitors in their mi...
Husband and wife sleuths Tommy and Tuppence Beresford move into an old house in a placid English village. There, they stumble across a clue in a children's book that points to a murder committed years earlier -- a murder someone doesn't want solved.
The secret adversary: In this sparkling adaptation, charming crime-solvers Tommy and Tuppenece Beresford stumble into spy craft while seraching for a missing woman in Cold War-era Britain. \\ Ordeal by innocence: Miss Marple is drawn into the Argyle family's tragic history when s...
International spies, two world wars, murders, thefts, and not to mention marriage, Tommy and Tuppence seek out excitement wherever it may lie. Tuppence leads the way with her charismatic nature, while Tommy's slow, considered manner provides the perfect foil. Together they form t...
When Tommy Beresford's aunt, Mrs. Lancaster, disappears, he and his wife Tuppence commence an investigation at the Sunny Ridge Rest Home, uncovering sinister secrets beneath the home's pleasant facade.
Time-tested mystery writer Agatha Christie presents her classic 1929 mystery. Here, Tommy and Tuppence are asked by the British Secret Service to take over the International Detective Agency.