{"id":21495,"date":"2023-01-30T20:53:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T01:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=21495"},"modified":"2024-01-21T10:49:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T15:49:34","slug":"partners-in-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21495","title":{"rendered":"Partners in Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Partners in Crime<\/a><\/em> (1929) Agatha Christie (Tommy & Tuppence)<\/p>\n

\"Partners<\/a>A set of intertwined Tommy & Tuppence short stories.<\/p>\n

A Fairy in the Flat
\nA Pot of Tea
\nThe Affair of the Pink Pearl
\nThe Adventure of the Sinister Stranger
\nFinessing the King
\nThe Case of the Missing Lady
\nBlindman\u2019s Buff
\nThe Man in the Mist
\nThe Crackler
\nThe Sunningdale Mystery
\nThe House of Lurking Death
\nThe Unbreakable Alibi
\nThe Clergyman\u2019s Daughter
\nThe Red House
\nThe Ambassador\u2019s Boots
\nThe Man Who Was No. 16<\/p>\n

Tommy & Tuppence have been contacted by Mr Carter to take over a somewhat shady private investigation office, in the hopes Carter can eventually catch the Russian spy who had been using the agency through it’s previous owner.<\/p>\n

Although the Tommy and Tuppence stories are fun, they tend towards sillier than some of her other stories.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe position amounts to this,\u201d he said. \u201cEither the pearl is still in the house, or it is not still in the house.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cQuite so,\u201d said the Colonel with more respect than was, perhaps, quite justified by the nature of the remark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cDo you know what I\u2019ve been thinking, Tommy?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s impossible to say,\u201d replied her husband. \u201cYou think of so many things, and you think of them all at once.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Each story name-checks in some way the various fictional detectives (or authors) of the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat fun, a real live fairy in our flat. Shall we write to Conan Doyle about it?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That took me aback because I forgot that Doyle died in 1930, and so was alive for a decade while Christie was writing.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll find a difficulty in being a Thorndyke. You\u2019ve no medical experience, and less legal, and I never heard that science was your strong point.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps not,\u201d said Tommy. \u201cBut at any rate I\u2019ve bought a very good camera, and I shall photograph footprints and enlarge the negatives and all that sort of thing. Now, mon ami, use your little grey cells\u2014 what does this convey to you?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These are the detectives \/ series I caught.<\/p>\n

Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke series by R. Austin Freeman
\nThe Man with the Clubfoot<\/em> by Valentine Williams
\nMcCarty & Riordan series by Isabel Ostrander
\nThe Problemist: The Complete Adventures of Thornley Colton, Blind Detective<\/em> by Clinton H. Stagg
\nFather Brown series by G. K. Chesterton
\nEdgar Wallace
\nTeahouse Detective Series by Emmuska Orczy
\nInspector Hanaud Series by A.E.W. Mason
\nInspector French Series by Freeman Wills Crofts
\nRoger Sheringham Cases Series by Anthony Berkeley
\nReggie Fortune Series by H.C. Bailey<\/p>\n

Publisher: William Morrow<\/p>\n

Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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