Also, the opening scenes are extremely rushed which makes them seem unrealistic. They place an ad in a newspaper and soon find themselves investigating the disappearance of Jane Finn.Īt first it’s difficult to connect with the characters of Tommy and Tuppence, as they share an intimate world that we are excluded from. Childhood friends Tommy and Tuppence reunite in London after working in the First World War and realise that they are both in need of employment. The Secret Adversary introduces us to the two amateur detectives. The Tommy & Tuppence:Partners in Crime series has been unavailable to own for a long time, but now Acorn Media UK are distributing a 3 disc set which includes the prequel film as well as the entire ten episode collection. A further ten episodes featuring Annis and Warwick as the two detectives were quickly filmed later that year, adapted from ten of Christie’s short stories that were first published in a collection in 1929. This is the case with the two in one detectives, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford (James Warwick and Francesca Annis), a husband and wife duo who seek a life of adventure.īoth of these characters were introduced to us on the screen in a 1983 115 minute film The Secret Adversary, based on Christie’s second novel of the same name published in 1922. This has meant that some of her lesser known detectives tend to fall into the cracks of the mainstream market. Dame Agatha Christie will always be remembered for her two most famous sleuths, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
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