![]() They were often referred to by Christie as "bright young things" and she is said to have enjoyed writing their stories the most. Postern is also notable as the final novel Christie ever wrote, though not published. From there, they were revisited by Christie from time to time, and again, unlike Poirot and Marple, aged in real-time as Christie did, starting out as energetic twenty-somethings in The Secret Adversary and ending up as retired grandparents in their twilight years in Postern of Fate. Jobless and penniless, they make plans to place an ad in the paper marketing themselves as adventurers, leading to an encounter that starts their career as spies for an unnamed British intelligence agency. They're far less famous than their mystery-solving counterparts Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.Īppearing in Christie's second novel, The Secret Adversary, Thomas Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley started out as friends in post- World War I Britain. ![]() Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are the protagonists of a series of novels and short stories by Agatha Christie, and mark the few ventures that Christie made into espionage tales rather than the whodunits she's known for. ![]()
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