![]() ![]() I think I preferred the characterisation of Tuppence and Tommy in these stories to their first appearance in THE SECRET ADVERSARY. Interestingly, all of the short stories had been published individually between 19 and were then arranged in a slightly different order for the 1929 collection. ![]() The Wikipedia one in particular identifies whose methods each story is a a parody of. There are quite good synopses of the individual stories both on the Agatha Christie site and on Wikipedia, so I won't repeat them here. I am told the stories contain parodies of Sherlock Holmes, John Thorndyke, Father Brown, and Hercule Poirot, but not being a reader from the 1920s I did have trouble in some stories in working out who the "original" sleuth was. In each story Tommy and Tuppence assume the mannerisms and methods of a different detective or detective team, including Sherlock Holmes. ![]() The fifteen stories contain parodies of fictional detectives who were well-known to readers of the 1920s. Tommy now has a desk job with the British Secret Service, and Tuppence, much to her displeasure is at home, though when the Chief of British Intelligence asks them to take over the International Detective Agency, both jump at the chance of new adventures. Six years have passed since the Beresfords began their sleuthing partnership in THE SECRET ADVERSARY. The edition I read was an Agatha Christie Signature Edition published in 2001, ISBN 0-00-711150-9, 347 pages. Published by Collins in Great Britain in 1929. ![]()
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