Partners in crime by Agatha Christie

Partners in Crime is a short story collection by British writer Agatha Christie, first published by Dodd, Mead and Company in the US in 1929 and in the UK by William Collins, Sons on 16 September of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). All of the stories in the collection had previously been published in magazines (see First publication of stories below) and feature her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, first introduced in The Secret Adversary (1922). This collection of detective short stories has a theme connecting the stories, as well, "a group of short detective stories within a detective novel." The collection was well received on publication, with the "merriest collection", with amiable parodies, to one reviewer who was less impressed, saying the stories were "entertaining enough". One noted that "By having two detectives who are usually alternately successful she [Christie] has always a foil, less obtuse than 'my dear Watson'. "Her literary skill is equal to the task" of parodies of the style of well-known detective writers. Some of the authors parodied in the 1920s are long-forgotten, yet a review in 1990 commented that "the parodies are not sharp enough for this to matter very much" to prevent enjoyment of the stories. It also noted that the plot of one story, "The House of Lurking Death", "anticipates" a detective novel published in 1930 by Dorothy Sayers. (This summary is from Wikipedia.)

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Author Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
Title Partners in crime
Original Publication New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc., 1929.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partners_in_Crime_(short_story_collection)
Contents A fairy in the flat -- A pot of tea -- The affair of the pink pearl -- The adventure of the sinister stranger -- Finessing the king -- The gentleman dressed in newspaper -- The case of the missing lady -- Blindman's buff -- The man in the mist -- The crackler -- The Sunningdale mystery -- The house of lurking death -- The unbreakable alibi -- The clergyman's daughter -- The red house -- The ambassador's boots -- The man who was no. 16.
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Summary Partners in Crime is a short story collection by British writer Agatha Christie, first published by Dodd, Mead and Company in the US in 1929 and in the UK by William Collins, Sons on 16 September of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). All of the stories in the collection had previously been published in magazines (see First publication of stories below) and feature her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, first introduced in The Secret Adversary (1922).
This collection of detective short stories has a theme connecting the stories, as well, "a group of short detective stories within a detective novel."
The collection was well received on publication, with the "merriest collection", with amiable parodies, to one reviewer who was less impressed, saying the stories were "entertaining enough". One noted that "By having two detectives who are usually alternately successful she [Christie] has always a foil, less obtuse than 'my dear Watson'. "Her literary skill is equal to the task" of parodies of the style of well-known detective writers. Some of the authors parodied in the 1920s are long-forgotten, yet a review in 1990 commented that "the parodies are not sharp enough for this to matter very much" to prevent enjoyment of the stories. It also noted that the plot of one story, "The House of Lurking Death", "anticipates" a detective novel published in 1930 by Dorothy Sayers.
(This summary is from Wikipedia.)
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Private investigators -- England -- Fiction
Subject Detective and mystery stories, English
Subject Beresford, Tommy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Subject Beresford, Tuppence (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
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EBook-No. 78342
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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