![]() ![]() ![]() After inadvertently stumbling into an espionage case in their debut - which they resolve successfully, they decide to get married, and by the second novel N or M (1941, which followed a rash of short stories), they’re the proud proprietors of the London-based Blunt’s Brilliant Detectives Agency. ![]() They joke about placing an ad in the newspaper for “Young Adventurers Ltd” (it never made it) but those crazy kids soon develop some real detective chops. Pragmatic, methodical Tommy, recently returned from the Great War, and his old pal, brash and often impulsive Prudence “Tuppence” Cowley, hook up after the war, and decide - over tea, of course - to become “adventurers,” almost as a lark. TOMMY and TUPPENCE BERESFORD are a married couple who run a small detective agency in post-WWI Britain, and appeared in a string of novellas and novels, starting in 1922 with the publication of The Secret Adversary. Okay, it’s not exactly the mean streets, but arguably the first-ever husband-and-wife sleuthing duo was created by the Queen of Crime herself, a decade before anyone had ever heard of Nick and Nora. From the December 1923 issue of The Grand Magazine the ad that was never placed First known illustration of Tommy and Tuppence. “Two young adventurers for hire Willing to do anything, go anywhere. ![]()
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