03240cam a22003613u 4500 78342 UtSlPG 20260610134821.0 m cr n 260607r20261929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 Partners in crime Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2026 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partners_in_Crime_(short_story_collection) Release date is 2026-04-02 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. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net 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.) Originally published: New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc., 1929 Private investigators -- England -- Fiction Detective and mystery stories, English Beresford, Tommy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Beresford, Tuppence (Fictitious character) -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78342 119062 119062