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Summary: In the beginning
Review: Tommy & Tuppence Beresford take over a detective agency for Scotland Yard, and delve into a variety of mysteries, domestic and international. With almost every adventure, Christie users other literary detectives as inspirations for the Beresfords to solve crimes, including her own Hercule Poirot. I haven't read Christie in ages, and it was a delight to do so again. Her plotting is marvelous. My favorite thing about Agatha Christie's works is her ability to portray human nature in all its details, thereby providing clues to motives. I learn a lot from her books!
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: Tommy and Tuppence are what one would get if Poirot and Marple married...(and then knocked off 30 years)... These charactes are a bored couple who desire to give up the doldrums of normal life to go fight crime. The husband is a bit of a straight man and the wife is a witty hellcat. They often attempt to solve crimes using the M.O. (method of opperation) of famous litereary detectives...with varrying degrees of sucess... However, even when they dont solve the crime its still a delightful romp... this book is set up into about 17 short stories...each one a new adventure that will leave you satisfied... Well Done Ms. Christie.
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Summary: Fun!
Review: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford's romance and postwar adventures were told in THE SECRET ADVERSARY. It is now 6 years later (1929) and the pair are comfortably settled into married life. Tommy has a job in the Secret Service, working for Mr. Carter whom they had met during their earlier adventures, and is reasonably content but Tuppence is bored. The housework only occupies a few hours in the morning leaving her longing for earlier, more exciting times. Just as Tommy warns her to be careful what she wishes for his boss arrives to offer them an adventure. He requests the pair take over a detective agency that is a front for Russian spies. The plan is to keep the agency going until the Secret Service can capture the rest of the spy ring. In order to keep up the front of the detective agency Tommy and Tuppence take on various jobs that come along. They are great fans of detective stories and model their detection techniques on the "Classics" the popular fictional detectives of the day. This collection of light hearted adventures is charming and cleverly plotted. It is wonderful to see what has happened to the delightful characters of not only Tommy and Tuppence but also Albert and the mysterious Mr. Carter. So why a 4 instead of a 5 star rating? The problem is with the use of the fictional characters as role models. Other than Sherlock Holmes few of the other detectives (Dr. Thorndyke, Inspector Hanaud, Max Carrados, Reggie Fortune, Inspector French, Father Brown and The Old Man in the Corner) are very well know today. Still, it is possible to enjoy the stories without knowing who the inspirations were.
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Summary: Have you heard anything from the Beresfords lately?
Review: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford's romance and postwar adventures were told in THE SECRET ADVERSARY. It is now 6 years later (1929) and the pair are comfortably settled into married life. Tommy has a job in the Secret Service, working for Mr. Carter whom they had met during their earlier adventures, and is reasonably content but Tuppence is bored. The housework only occupies a few hours in the morning leaving her longing for earlier, more exciting times. Just as Tommy warns her to be careful what she wishes for his boss arrives to offer them an adventure. He requests the pair take over a detective agency that is a front for Russian spies. The plan is to keep the agency going until the Secret Service can capture the rest of the spy ring. In order to keep up the front of the detective agency Tommy and Tuppence take on various jobs that come along. They are great fans of detective stories and model their detection techniques on the "Classics" the popular fictional detectives of the day. This collection of light hearted adventures is charming and cleverly plotted. It is wonderful to see what has happened to the delightful characters of not only Tommy and Tuppence but also Albert and the mysterious Mr. Carter. So why a 4 instead of a 5 star rating? The problem is with the use of the fictional characters as role models. Other than Sherlock Holmes few of the other detectives (Dr. Thorndyke, Inspector Hanaud, Max Carrados, Reggie Fortune, Inspector French, Father Brown and The Old Man in the Corner) are very well know today. Still, it is possible to enjoy the stories without knowing who the inspirations were.
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Summary: The New York City reviewer put it perfectly!!
Review: When I read this reader's opinion of Partners in Crime, I agreed 100%! Very well put! An excellent book - I immediatley went to the library after reading this book to check out another Tommy and Tuppence novel, but it seems that in the other Tommy and Tuppence novels with the exception of The Secret Adversary, Tommy and Tuppence are middle aged. One of the reasons I enjoyed Partners in Crime so much is their lively youth, not to mention the romance, excitement, and humor!
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Summary: Entertaining detective tales but unrealistic background
Review: While waiting for the spies from Moscow to show their hand, Tommy and Tuppence, aka Mr & Mrs Beresford, took over a detective agency known to be associated with the Moscow spies and masqueraded as the real owner Mr Blunt and staff. A fair number of legitimate cases unrelated to the spies came their way, and the two played the game by pretending to be famous fictious detectives, including Father Brown (creation of GK Chesterton) and Sherlock Holmes (creation of Arthur Conan Doyle). They solved the cases with more than an element of fun, typical husband-wife oneupmanship, female intuition etc. While entertaining, the backdrop of the detective agency being a Trojan horse for counter-intelligence was rather naive and unrealistic. It presumed the Russians did not know the faces of the English traitors they recruited, and once the trap was exposed, they would prefer to spring it rather than leave it alone.
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Summary: Entertaining detective tales but unrealistic background
Review: While waiting for the spies from Moscow to show their hand, Tommy and Tuppence, aka Mr & Mrs Beresford, took over a detective agency known to be associated with the Moscow spies and masqueraded as the real owner Mr Blunt and staff. A fair number of legitimate cases unrelated to the spies came their way, and the two played the game by pretending to be famous fictious detectives, including Father Brown (creation of GK Chesterton) and Sherlock Holmes (creation of Arthur Conan Doyle). They solved the cases with more than an element of fun, typical husband-wife oneupmanship, female intuition etc. While entertaining, the backdrop of the detective agency being a Trojan horse for counter-intelligence was rather naive and unrealistic. It presumed the Russians did not know the faces of the English traitors they recruited, and once the trap was exposed, they would prefer to spring it rather than leave it alone.
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