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Tommy and Tuppence are two fictional detectives, recurring characters in the work of Agatha Christie. Their full names are Thomas Beresford and Prudence Beresford (née Cowley). The first time Tommy and Tuppence appeared in a Christie novel was in ''The Secret Adversary'' (1922). They started out their career as accidental blackmailers〔'(asks ) "Blackmail, eh?" / Tuppence smiled sweetly' – Chapter 2, ''The Secret Adversary''〕 (all in search of adventure and money), but the detecting life soon proved more profitable and much more exciting. ==Detectives== Tommy and Tuppence appear together in four full-length novels and one collection of short stories 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tommy and Tuppence )〕 The collection of short stories is ''Partners in Crime'', (1929, each story reminiscent of another writer's work); the four novels are ''The Secret Adversary'' (1922),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Secret Adversary )〕 ''N or M?'' (1941), ''By the Pricking of My Thumbs'' (1968); and ''Postern of Fate'' (1973).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Postern of Fate )〕 ''Postern of Fate'' was the last novel Christie ever wrote, although not the last to be published. 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"). They therefore 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. Unlike many other recurring detective characters, including the better known Christie detectives, Tommy and Tuppence aged in time with the real world, being in their early twenties in ''The Secret Adversary''〔 and in their seventies in ''Postern of Fate''. In their early appearances, they are portrayed as typical upper middle class "bright young things" of the 1920s,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tommy And Tuppence )〕 and the stories and settings have a more pronounced period-specific flavour than the stories featuring the better known Christie characters. As they age, they're revealed to have raised three children – twins Deborah and Derek and an adopted daughter, Betty. Throughout the series they employ a man named Albert, who first appears as a lift boy who helps them in ''The Secret Adversary''; and subsequently, as a now married pub owner, renders vital assistance to the pair in ''N or M?.'' In ''Partners in Crime,'' Albert becomes their hapless assistant at a private detective agency; by ''Postern of Fate'' he's their butler and has now been widowed. In ''Postern of Fate'' they also have a small dog named Hannibal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tommy and Tuppence」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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