Partners in Crime

Bored by her comfortable but dull life, Tuppence is thrilled to learn that Tommy has taken over a defunct detective agency. With business off to a slow start, Tuppence concocts a PR gambit and soon the pair is on to a real case involving the theft of a valuable pearl.

The young new mistress of Thurley Grange fears someone in the house is trying to kill her. Tommy and Tuppence are hired to investigate, though death does indeed visit the grim old house. The detectives are left to find the culprit from an array of unlikely suspects.

When a partner in an insurance firm is found murdered on a golf course, evidence at the scene points to a female suspect taken into custody. Tuppence discovers a crucial flaw in the case against the woman that the men have overlooked..

The death of her wealthy aunt seems to be the salvation of a young woman whose clergyman father has passed away and left her destitute. The young woman turns to Blunt’s Detective Agency for help to recover the aunt’s vanished fortune and rout the poltergeists of the large, apparently haunted, country house.

Tommy and Tuppence are intrigued by a coded message in a newspaper’s personal column. Their intuition about a suggested rendezvous in the message is proven accurate, but a new mystery surfaces when a tryst turns deadly.

Tommy and Tuppence investigate a strange case involving luggage belonging to the U.S. ambassador to Britain. The danger escalates after a mysterious suicide and a violent altercation in the offices of Blunt’s Detective Agency.