Partners in Crime (Tommy and Tuppence #2)

 

Partners In Crime

(Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries #2)

Agatha Christie

Orig. Pub. June 7, 1929

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 3 🍷🍷🍷

Summary: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leap at the chance.

Their first case is a success—the triumphant recovery of a pink pearl. Other cases soon follow—a stabbing on Sunningdale golf course; cryptic messages in the personal columns of newspapers; and even a box of poisoned chocolates. But can they live up to their slogan of "Any case solved in 24 hours"?

My thoughts: This is my first Tommy and Tuppence book and I enjoyed the refreshingly witty relationship that the two had. The overarching plot was that the two were posing as the owners of the Blunt's Detective Agency in order to assist Scotland Yard with apprehending Russian spies. During the course of their time at the agency they took on other cases to solve. With each case they attempted to utilize a different detective persona. Each chapter was dedicated to the different cases that the couple undertook to solve. Some of the cases were utterly preposterous and I found that there were probably too many cases to fit into one book. While I still can't say I'm an avid Christie fan, I did enjoy this book.