<Tr> <Th> Nationality </Th> <Td> British </Td> </Tr> <P> Tommy and Tuppence are two fictional detectives, recurring characters in the work of Agatha Christie . Their full names are Thomas Beresford and his wife Prudence (née Cowley). The first time Tommy and Tuppence appeared in a Christie novel was in The Secret Adversary (1922). They started out their career in a search of adventure and money, but the detecting life soon proved more profitable and much more exciting . </P> <P> Tommy and Tuppence appear together in four full - length novels and one collection of short stories The collection of short stories is Partners in Crime, (1929, each story referencing another writer's work); the four novels are The Secret Adversary (1922), N or M? (1941), By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968); and Postern of Fate (1973). Postern of Fate was the last novel Christie ever wrote, although not the last to be published . </P> <P> Tuppence appears as a charismatic, impulsive, and intuitive person while Tommy is less imaginative and less likely to be diverted from the truth (as their first adversary sums him up "he is not clever, but it is hard to blind his eyes to the facts") which is why they are shown to make a good team . It is in this first book The Secret Adversary that they meet up after the war, and come to realise that, although they have been friends for most of their lives, they have now fallen in love with each other . </P>

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