Partners in Crime (Tommy and Tuppence) - Softcover

Christie, Agatha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451201175 ISBN 13: 9780451201171

Publisher: Penguin, 2000

Synopsis

Taking over a near-bankrupt detective agency, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford tackle a Russian Bolshevik conspiracy utilizing the methods of the world's greatest detectives, including Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. Reissue.

About this title

Review:

‘Required reading.’
Books

‘Distinctly worthwhile.’
New York Times

‘Sherlock Holmes, John Thorndyke, Father Brown and even Poirot are amiably parodied, and once or twice the solution as well as the dialogue is deliberately facetious.’
Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

Dame Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer. Her books have sold over two billion copies worldwide and have been translated into 44 foreign languages.
During a writing career that spanned more than half a century, she created two of the world's most famous detectives. Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple.

The author of 79 novels and short story collections, she was also an accomplished playwright - one of her 14 plays, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history. She published six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott and wrote four non-fiction books, including an autobiography. Several of her books, including Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, were made into hugely successful films. She died in 1976.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0451201175
• ISBN 13: 9780451201171
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224