Tuppence

‘Young Adventurers Ltd’ was Tuppence’s inspiration.  The young twenty something, hopelessly broke after the war, meets her old friend Tommy at Dover Street tube; together they devise a new strategy to make money.  Willing to hire themselves out, with the caveat that no offer be ‘unreasonable’, they quickly find themselves embroiled in a sinister political conspiracy.  Even Tommy and Tuppence could never have imagined the adventures they would embark on.

Tuppence marries Tommy at the end of The Secret Adversary, their first book together.  They go on to have three children, twins, Derek and Deborah, and an adopted daughter called Betty.  Tommy and Tuppence appear in five novels, The Secret Adversary, N or M? By the Pricking of my Thumbs and Postern of Fate.  Partners in Crime is a short story collection; in each story Tommy and Tuppence solve cases in the manner of a famous fictional detective – including Hercule Poirot!

On screen Tuppence has been portrayed most famously by Francesca Annis in the television series Partners in Crime.  She was also the first of Christie’s heroines to be portrayed on screen in Die Abenteurer – the first film adaptation of Christie’s work.

Sometimes appears with:

• Tommy