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Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)

Agatha Christie

Start date: November 15, 2024

Finish date: December 7, 2024

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Jul 05, 2018 Teri-K rated it liked it

Shelves: mystery-golden-age

A selection of short stories strung together as Tommy and Tuppence take over a private detective's office. There's the overarching mystery of international spies, but the other stories range from simple to serious. Add to that, T&T take the opportunity to pretend to be literary detectives. I know Holmes, of course, and Poirot, but I don't recognize others they discuss like McCarty, the Brothers Okewood, or Reggie Fortune and Superintendent Bell. It doesn't matter, though, as most of the stories ...more

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Jan 14, 2016 Kerstin added it

I usually like Agatha Christie's mystery novels but this was the most boring book by her I have read.
This is a Collection of short stories about a married couple who are bored and start a detecetive firm.
The dialouges are lika a Noel Coward paly.
There are those who Think Reading is boring. This book prolve them right. ...more

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Mar 04, 2009 Laura Anne rated it it was amazing

Shelves: espionage, mystery, british-isles, adventure, favorites

Reread 2021: The Beresfords take over a detective agency and the variety of cases, homages to literary detectives, the Roaring '20s, and the spark between the couple make this the best of Tommy and Tuppence. ...more

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May 12, 2017 Nanosynergy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mysteries-thrillers-espionage, series, british, fiction, 2017read, short-stories-and-essays, reviewed, fiction-1920s

Collection of Tommy and Tuppence Short Stories. Many spoofing/imitating other mystery writer's characters and styles.

-A Fairy in the Flat/A Pot of Tea
-The Affair of the Pink Pearl
-The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger
-Finessing the King/The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper
-The Case of the Missing Lady
-Blindman's Buff
-The Man in the Mist
-The Crackler
-The Sunningdale Mystery
-The House of Lurking Death
-The Unbreakable Alibi
-The Clergyman's Daughter/The Red House
-The Ambassador's Boots
-The Man Who W ...more

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