![]() ![]() "Finessing the King / The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper".Soon after, DI Dymchurch from Scotland Yard arrives, says that he is following Bower, and reports that Bower is suspected of being part of the spy ring that Tommy and Tuppence are there to investigate. ![]() A doctor, Charles Bower, comes in to the agency and says that he is getting plagued with fake house calls, after which his office is searched. "The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger".A Miss Kingston Bruce hires the agency to find a pink pearl, stolen from her parents' house. Vincent, asks the duo to find his missing girlfriend Janet. In the second, a rich young nobleman, Lawrence St. The first sets the frame, as Tommy and Tuppence are told to take over a detective agency. ![]() First published together as a short story called "Publicity". Most of the stories satirize popular mystery writers of the era. A total of 14 short stories, all published in magazines between 19, were included in the collection. ![]() While they wait for spies to contact them, the two are assigned actual detective cases. Carter, Tommy's boss in the Secret Service, asks him to run the agency, with Tuppence posing as his secretary. The frame story has the Secret Service discovering that "The International Detective Agency" is actually a front for Russian spies. In the interim since their debut, Tommy and Tuppence have gotten married. It features the return of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, previously seen in spy novel The Secret Adversary. Partners in Crime is a 1929 short story collection by Agatha Christie. ![]()
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