Prudence (Tuppence) Beresford ( Jessica Raine) is a quick-witted, irrepressible woman with a tendency to leap without looking. It is a perilous world, in which Tommy flourishes. He does not realise that he has no head for business, but he does have a knack for espionage and crime-solving in a Cold War world full of double agents and assassins.
He tries to look after his spirited wife, Tuppence, and his son, George, by various money-making schemes. Thomas (Tommy) Beresford ( David Walliams), in his early 40s, is a clever and logical man whose business ventures never quite work out, just as his university and army days were never successful. The action is updated from the 19 settings of the novels to the 1950s, and the era of the Cold War against Stalin. The novels are adapted from the short stories of Partners in Crime the first three episodes from the 1922 novel The Secret Adversary, and the last three episodes from the 1941 novel N or M? The series was not renewed for a second series by the BBC. The six-part series is an adaptation of two Tommy and Tuppence detective novels by Agatha Christie. The beloved characters' debut offers a light-hearted romp that also recaptures the spirit of its age, as postwar England hovered on the brink of monumental change.Partners in Crime is a British drama television series that began on BBC One on 26 July 2015. With stolid Tommy and lively Tuppence, Christie created a pair of fan favorites to whom she returned throughout her career the fun-loving duo appear in three other novels and a collection of short stories, and their exploits have been adapted for stage and screen. Witty banter highlights their tale of adventure, courage, and suspense, populated by a colorful cast ranging from an American millionaire and a British Intelligence agent to a ring of Bolshevist conspirators headed by a criminal mastermind.Īgatha Christie published The Secret Adversary in 1922 after the success of her very first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which introduced Hercule Poirot. The childhood chums, newly reunited in London during the lean years after the Great War, are immediately swept up in a series of thrilling escapades as they search for a secret treaty in the hands of a survivor of the shipwrecked Lusitania.
With that bold declaration, Thomas "Tommy" Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley launch their career as sleuths.
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