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The location is often a stately home, but a luxurious sleeper train or a hotel in an isolated beauty spot will do just as well. Enter Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, a pair of married sleuths who appear in four of her novels and one marvellous collection of short stories.
Agatha Christie and her first husband Col. Archibald Christie in Photo: Whereas Poirot and Miss Marple are two-dimensional, glued together with catchphrases and a recurring list of lightly sketched characteristics, Tommy and Tuppence are much more authentic. This is because Christie wrote about them in real time.
Do we know whether every character was purely good or evil? I have to admit that this, their first adventure, was not as bad as I was expecting. This book has one of my most favourite tropes- An espionage set during the First World War period. This page was last edited on 30 July , at The women and children were being lined up awaiting their turn. So here we have Agatha Christie the humorist, the political animal and the romantic.
Poirot and Miss Marple are preserved in aspic, solving crimes in an indeterminate period that appears to be the midth century. By the time of Postern of Fate , the Beresfords are living in contented retirement in a picturesque English village. Christie drip-feeds us information about the pair over the course of the books.
We learn that they have three children and a small dog called Hannibal. There is also the character of Albert, who first appears as a lift boy and later assists Tommy and Tuppence in their adventures.