(By the way, Tuppence’s real name is Prudence, in case you were wondering. The first time we met them was in a very early book called The Secret Adversary, where they were a couple of young adventurers caught up in a spy plot. But they are interesting, because they’re the only characters that really aged in Christie’s books. T & T are a little bit more obscure than Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Christie’s main sleuths, and they’re not quite as outlandish. This book is another in the Tommy and Tuppence series. However, I did just finish this one, so I can comment on it while it’s fresh in my mind.
Especially because, as the really classic ones were in the first 45, there’s a sense in which there’ s a bit of barrel-scraping going on here.Īnyway, I’m not going to review the 60 or so I’ve already ready here, because that would be a test of my patience trying to remember exactly what happened in each one and a test of yours reading it all. I think it was somewhere in the low 60s that I had to take a break from reading one every fortnight. Then, by that stage, it was still so popular that the publishers decided, “Why not do it all?” So they went out and chased up copyright for her plays and her autobiography and they published absolutely every last thing she wrote under the name of Agatha Christie, bringing the collection to a whopping 85 books. However, the collection was so popular, that it kept going to 65 issues. Originally, there were just going to be 45 issues, containing the 45 best Agatha Christie stories. This was a partworks collection that came out at the rate of one book every fortnight from the newsagent, with a nice hardbound edition of the book (which I haven’t got pictured here, because it wasn’t sold in bookstores) and an accompanying magazine. Some of you may know that for a period of – I don’t know really – probably two years – I was collecting The Agatha Christie Collection.
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