 | mayakane (2)
08/10/2008 | Ok, so the Tommy and Tuppence series was not the most famous or clever of Agatha Christie's work. But it really stands up to re-reading because it was funny and unlike the archetype of the solitary detective, Partners and Crime and the subsequent novels (The Secret Adversary, Partners in Crime, N or M?, By the Pricking of My Thumbs and Postern of Fate) were about a relationship that went from youth to old age, which added the real complexity. The Baristers start in Christie's world after the first war young adventurers, and continue to be so long into old age, which unlike many authors, Christie never considered a curse that could not be bestowed upon her characters.
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